The document provides tips for fantasy writers on showing emotions and actions through dialogue, small descriptive details, and character movements rather than just stating them. It encourages adding new dialogue or showing characters' reactions, emotions, and actions to create drama and move the story forward in an engaging way for the reader. Writers should look for other opportunities in their story to SHOW rather than TELL through these recommended strategies.
The document provides tips for fantasy writers on showing emotions and actions through dialogue, small descriptive details, and character movements rather than just stating them. It encourages adding new dialogue or showing characters' reactions, emotions, and actions to create drama and move the story forward in an engaging way for the reader. Writers should look for other opportunities in their story to SHOW rather than TELL through these recommended strategies.
The document provides tips for fantasy writers on showing emotions and actions through dialogue, small descriptive details, and character movements rather than just stating them. It encourages adding new dialogue or showing characters' reactions, emotions, and actions to create drama and move the story forward in an engaging way for the reader. Writers should look for other opportunities in their story to SHOW rather than TELL through these recommended strategies.
L ittle Red Riding Hood Red’s eyebrows scrunched together as she studied her Grandma.
As Grammy talked, Red noticed her glistening
fangs dripping with drool. Grammy didn’t look like her normal self. Red leaned closer, her eyebrows furling as she inspected.
Grammy didn’t look like her normal self. She
turned up her long, grey snout and sniffed the air in Red’s vicinity. Insert your new dialogue and “showing” of emotions into your existing alternate beginning.