All of us have heard this at least a hundred times. I found this quote in Writer’s Digest. I think it sums up this concept well.
“If you tell a reader that Bull Beezley is a
brutal-faced, loose-lipped bully, with snake’s blood in his veins, the reader’s
reaction may be, ‘Oh yeah!’ But if you
show the reader Bull Beezley raking the bloodied flanks of his weary, sweat-encrusted
pony, and flogging the tottering, red-eyed animal with a quirt, or have him
booting in the protruding ribs of a starved mongrel and, boy, the reader
believes!”
– Fred East,
WD
What do you think?
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