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  • Show vs. Tell

    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 4 19:24:00 2021
    At nap time, I started reading the novella "Mrs. Veriker's Courier
    Maid" in Mrs. Alexander's collection _Forging the Fetters_.

    I am skimming most of Mrs. Veriker's lines; when a character is *that* disagreeable, it's time for "tell, don't show"

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    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at centurylink dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From Dorothy J Heydt@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 5 00:49:39 2021
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Joy Beeson <[email protected]d> wrote:

    At nap time, I started reading the novella "Mrs. Veriker's Courier
    Maid" in Mrs. Alexander's collection _Forging the Fetters_.

    I am skimming most of Mrs. Veriker's lines; when a character is *that* >disagreeable, it's time for "tell, don't show"

    Did it put you to sleep? :)

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    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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