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How to Write a Scene

“Show Don’t Tell,” is an overused piece of writing advice. I say it too much, often as a placeholder for deeper work I could be doing with students and clients. There is also “Kill Your Darlings,” but Emily Schultz has that one covered.

Sonya Huber, has written about how the edict to “show don’t tell” can reproduce the conditions of abuse that many of us emerge from as young writers.