How Fiction Works Writing Meme - Day Ten

10 - Do you show, or tell? Wax poetic on the emotion of the moment? Or simply describe the moment and let the reader find the emotion for themselves? Which do you prefer reading?

Again: it depends. 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.

Wax lyrical? If it is a character piece, then probably so. Again, I don't think I'm the best person to ask. I can't see the wood for the trees with things like this. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, but I'm just guessing.

As for reading, well that depends too. I'll only get frustrated with the 'poetical' if I'm feeling an emotion other than that which the author thinks I ought to be. I'm not going to get all teary eyed over a relationship breaking down if I didn't think it was a good one in the first place and besides, I'm shipping the heroine with the cute cop from chapter four :D

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I'll make an index post when I've completed the meme with links to all my answers; they will all be tagged #how fiction works meme. You can find the full set of questions at pristineungift's entry:here

Fic: Comfort

Title: Comfort
Fandom: Original Fic
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 517
Prompt: For the 30 days of fiction meme prompt #21 write a scene with a drink(ing) of some sort
Summary: Barrett offers her brandy, companionship, a handkerchief, but Abigail cannot so easily be comforted.
Warnings: None
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