A great piece from the blog We all die. The Goal isn't to live forever. The author offers the most concrete advice on writing to show and not telling you're ever likely to see. E.g:
No “thought” verbs:
These include: Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants, Remembers, Imagines, Desires, and a hundred others you love to use.
The list should also include: Loves and Hates.
And it should include: Is and Has, but we’ll get to those later.
Also:
Instead of characters knowing anything, you must now present the details that allow the reader to know them. Instead of a character wanting something, you must now describe the thing so that the reader wants it.
It's brilliant. Read it.
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