Show don't tell. There's nothing wrong with telling some of your story. Sometimes you have no choice; but showing is more effective because if a writer wants to truly engage the reader's imagination the writer must write in pictures, in images. When a writer shows the story by using concrete details, dialogue and action the "reader becomes part of the creative process" by being asked to make judgements on what is going on in the story and not on what the writer explains is going on. Showing is also much more difficult to do. The writer is asking more of the reader but also more of the self. It's simply easier to tell a story; but for the reader it's also less enjoyable. Writers of fiction, whenever possible, show don't tell.
So true, so true, many a author tell too much and it kills the curiosity to see more, to learn more about the book.
One of the most secure ways to go forward and no stagnate, is to publish self for as little as 20 U$S for example on www.lulu.com and buy as many books you can afford after taking ISBN for 99 U$S which will put your books in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. etc. etc.
I did, and with the ISBN guaranteeing my worldwide copy rights I am at the present engaged with a major publisher for the rights in the Scandinavian countries.
No one can say todays "it is only a dream".
Georg
3 WAY MIRROR is about a lost identity as experienced by a twenty-eight-year old who thinks he's Charles Randall, until strange events suggest otherwise.
Part Three in the Mu Series - Sarah Thompson reluctantly abandons her desperate search for her soul mate on Maui and returns to her Montana hometown. Her brother has had a terrible accident...
In this eccentric tale set in a small town in northern India, Pawan Mishra masterfully weaves ingenuity and sarcasm in a manner thats simultaneously hilarious and tragic.
One of the most secure ways to go forward and no stagnate, is to publish self for as little as 20 U$S for example on www.lulu.com and buy as many books you can afford after taking ISBN for 99 U$S which will put your books in Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. etc. etc.
I did, and with the ISBN guaranteeing my worldwide copy rights I am at the present engaged with a major publisher for the rights in the Scandinavian countries.
No one can say todays "it is only a dream".
Georg