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Daily archive for January 14, 2026

Basic skills–Showing Settings

On January 14, 2026   /   Writing  
Tags: basic writing, setting, show and tell

Today I want to talk about the “show” part of “show, don’t tell.” Because it isn’t quite as simple as it looks. (And that is why it took me the whole post to just talk about showing in terms of describing a setting, meaning I’m going to

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