>As with everything else in writing, the most important thing is to thi k about the kind of effect you want to create, and apply the tools and techniques that will get you there. Show-don't-tell is a tool,but it's no help at all if you're setting it to the wrong task.
Plus, I have seen people from other ethnic backgrounds critique it as a specifically Anglo-European conceit. Insisting on it excludes a lot of writers and narrows our art.
Ruby Jones /
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