Laurie Alberts Quotes

• Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

  Laurie Alberts

  Writing, Cutting, Creative Nonfiction

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, Writer's Digest Books

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• Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

  Laurie Alberts

  Writing, Two, Creative

  Laurie Alberts (2010). “Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing”, p.1, F+W Media, Inc.

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