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'i'll take your word for it, that i can skip it.' LOL.

Fantasy Moon... I hear you. I imagine most people would gravitate towards showing upon initial consideration, or even if they were forced to only pick one and not the other. Fortunately we do not have to do that. As I mentioned in the original post, I am presently reading Everything Is...

Thank you for welcoming me here. I would be glad to read an excerpt of your writing when you are ready to show it. And I can assure you that if you are a beginnning writer, you will find no better teacher than John Gardner. He is nothing short of a master on craft. His two best and most enduring...

I hear you. In recent years, my reading habits have been confined almost exclusively to literary fiction. It is not only what I like to read most (the exploration of the complexities of the human condition) but also what I write. However, there have been several times when I felt those books...

I hear you, and I agree: it really does come down to execution. whether showing or telling, it all depends on the author's ability to execute. I suppose I asked the question because I find that most genre fiction (horror, crime, etc.) are stories that, for the most part, are shown. Simply...

I am currently reading Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Much of the book is written in the form of the narrator Telling the story (generalizations of what happened) as opposed to showing it (exact, moment to moment details of what happened). Many authors, such as Marquez...

What Are Your Thoughts on Junot Diaz??? Junot Diaz won the Pulitzer a couple of years ago for 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'? Do you think his book was deserving of the award? And what do you think of the book?