Date: 2011-09-01 09:02 pm (UTC)
I know we are supposed to show, but sometimes you need to tell things in order to get the story moving along – facts, background information, and so on. Exactly - you can't show everything.

I read a book where it was just one day, from the point of view of one character, sort of a stream of consciousness - it was an important day, sure, but I thought the book was hard to get through. I don't need to know the character's shoe size to know what kind of person they are.

So I guess I think it depends on what kind of detail; and at the writers' conference they did say that writing just about emotion is amateurish.
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