How to Write Fiction that Feels Real: Showing versus Telling

Showing versus Telling
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Showing versus Telling

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

A
As his mother switched off the light and left the room, Michael tensed. He huddled under the covers, gripped the sheets, and held his breath as the wind brushed past the curtain.

Slide 2 - Tekstslide

B
Michael was terribly afraid of the dark.

Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Which is an example of "showing"?
A
As his mother switched off the light and left the room...
B
Michael was terribly afraid of the dark.

Slide 4 - Quizvraag

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Slide 5 - Video

01:04
Telling is summarizing, showing is ...
A
simplifying
B
dramatizing
C
exaggerating
D
lying

Slide 6 - Quizvraag

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Example of telling: 
Lois was a horribly messy person.

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Example of showing:
 Hey, there's my sandwich!' Lois exclaimed triumphantly, spying yesterday's meatball sub protruding from the heap of dirty laundry on the backseat of her car.

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

What if, instead of messy, Lois were compulsively neat? 

Think about how you could show that. 

What does a compulsively neat person do? 

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Write one sentence in which you show that Lois is compulsively neat.

Slide 11 - Open vraag

Example of telling
It was a hot day. 

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

Example of showing: 
 Her shirt stuck to the small of her back, and sweat rolled down her thighs as she trudged across the parched grass to the porch, where a collie panted in the thin shadow offered by the rocking chair. 

Slide 13 - Tekstslide

Write one sentence in which you show a cold day.

Slide 14 - Open vraag

They were angry.

Slide 15 - Open vraag

Choose a prompt: 

Slide 16 - Tekstslide

Slide 17 - Link

Use this prompt to write for ten minutes. Show instead of tell!

Slide 18 - Open vraag