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Show vs. Tell

From Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.composition
Subject Show vs. Tell
Date 2021-02-04 19:24 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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At nap time, I started reading the novella "Mrs. Veriker's Courier
Maid" in Mrs. Alexander's collection _Forging the Fetters_.

I am skimming most of Mrs. Veriker's lines; when a character is *that*
disagreeable, it's time for "tell, don't show"

-- 
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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Show vs. Tell Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-02-04 19:24 -0500
  Re: Show vs. Tell djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2021-02-05 00:49 +0000

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