[[Re: To Thine Own Self Be True 1,2, 3/undetermined.]]

["wizathogwarts" <mcronin24@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the clarification. While I feel that I am more a show 
rather then tell writer, your point about showing being more work is 
well taken. To get a concept out quickly, telling is the quick and 
lazy way, to which I freely admit being guilty. While I agree that 
showing is more compelling than telling, I am not convinced that 
telling is ALWAYS inappropriate. But it is definitely something to 
ponder.

pondering away...

mike ;-)/

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., Mad Hamlet <Mad-Hamlet@u...> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> >>It's probably because I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but I 
> don't get the SHOW DON'T TELL!!
> 
> Fine, okay a quick example then.
> 
> You get the gist of it.
> That, that is what authors live for.
> 
> Hope this clears it up a tad.
> 
> I remain, as always,
> Mad-Hamlet
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> There is only one thing that can damn me.
> That can send me down in a swirling maelstrom of fire and pain.
> And it is not the word of Man.
> And it is not the lessons and rules of the Church, hypocrites 
every one.
> And it is not the words of God, nor the judgements of Angels.
> And it not a fair tribunal of my 'peers' that can find me guilty 
of crimes
> immortal.
> No. 
> I can only be accused, judged and damned by my own Soul.
> And I would never be so betrayed.
> 
> Mad-Hamlet