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
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.
Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
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