Showing Telling
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Show Don’t Tell
Are your characters flat? Is your dialogue lacking depth? Does your writing tell more than it shows? Transform your storytelling with Show Don’t Tell - A Collection of Examples to Transform Your Writing, the ultimate guide to mastering one of the most crucial techniques in fiction. Packed with 100+ examples, this book will teach you how to elevate your writing by showing emotions, actions, settings, and character development in a way that brings your story to life. From the basics of "show, don’t tell" to advanced techniques like metaphors, symbolism, and subtext, this guide offers practical solutions and exercises to help you create more dynamic and engaging prose. Whether you're a new writer looking to sharpen your skills or a seasoned author seeking to deepen your storytelling, Show Don’t Tell provides actionable insights to take your writing to the next level. Learn when to show, when to tell, and how to strike the perfect balance to keep readers immersed in your story from start to finish.
How to Show Things with Words
Author: Rui Linhares-Dias
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date: 2011-05-03
How to Show Things with Words is an interdisciplinary research study at the interface between linguistics and philosophy which sheds new light on the narrative-theoretical issue of proximal vs. distal stance adoption in discourse. Narrative distance ultimately depends on the epistemological source of the information conveyed, but English and other Indo-European languages have no inflectional systems for (en)coding that source of knowledge. To fill in the gap, speech act theory is (re)considered in the light of philosophical research on linguistic functions and a parallel is drawn between grammaticalized evidential categories and the objectifying acts of Husserl's phenomenology of constitution. These intuitive vs. signitive intentional acts do, indeed, roughly correspond to direct vs. indirect evidentiary forms and can be inferred from the temporal-perspectival organization of discourse by the so-called intimation or announcement function of language-systems. It turns out that perspectival immediacy requires tenses with overlapping event- and reference-points, but predictions of the sort are non-monotonic forms of reasoning defeasible by quantificational aspect distinctions, on the one hand, and inherent meaning considerations, on the other. To substantiate this claim, the bulk of the book provides an in-depth formal semantic account of tense, aspect and Aktionsart, interwoven with a detailed analysis of the cognitive processes associated with eventuality-description types. The book adresses an audience of linguists in general, formal semanticists, cognitive scientists, philosophers and narratologists with an interest in natural language semantics.
Creative Writing
Presenting an opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, this text helps new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards.