Comments on: How Star Trek Helps Us with Showing Rather than Telling https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Showing vs. Telling: Finding the Right Balance | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-83735 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:31:02 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-83735 […] in deep POV, virtually all our character’s thoughts are technically telling. Going back to Marcy Kennedy’s description of showing, could a Star Trek holodeck program get into our heads and make us experience specific thoughts? […]

]]> By: Showing vs. Telling: How Do We Choose? | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-83622 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:30:43 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-83622 […] Before we dig deeper, we first need to make sure we understand what it means to show. As one of my editors, Marcy Kennedy once explained: […]

]]> By: A Hodgepodge of Useful Bits & Pieces – Mid-July 2013 | https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37154 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 21:37:13 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37154 […] Kennedy uses Star Trek to help explain the difference between show and tell, and it’s brilliant. You might want to bookmark this […]

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37153 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:02:09 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37153 In reply to schillingklaus.

You are the writer. Do what you want. I’m not yer mama.

]]> By: schillingklaus https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37152 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:20:58 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37152 No, I will not succumb to the show-don’t-tell ideology of Lubbock and James; but I will keep on deploying intrusive authorial diegesis, no matter what.

]]> By: Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #34 — The Book Designer https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37151 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:26:06 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37151 […] Kennedy presents How Star Trek Helps Us With Showing Rather than Telling posted at Kristen Lamb’s Warrior Writers, saying, “You’ve heard the advice […]

]]> By: KM Fawcett https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37150 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:39:03 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37150 Great post! I reblogged this on http://www.AttackingThePage.wordpress.com and commented:
Want to be able to show and not tell in your writing? Use the Holodeck! The following article on showing vs telling has been swiped from Kristen Lamb’s blog.

]]> By: How Star Trek Helps Us with Showing Rather than Telling | Attacking the Page https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37149 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:35:44 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37149 […] How Star Trek Helps Us with Showing Rather than Telling. […]

]]> By: Eden Royce https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37148 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 23:26:47 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37148 Reblogged this on The Dark Geisha and commented:
Having trouble with show versus tell in your writing? Allow Star Trek to help…

]]> By: emmaburcart https://authorkristenlamb.com/2013/07/how-star-trek-helps-us-with-showing-rather-than-telling/#comment-37147 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:54:54 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=12222#comment-37147 Great advice, as usual. I’m working on finding a balance, because I think I actually show too much and don’t really tell at all. But as a reader, I like a book that has some narration too. I’d love to hear your advice on that sometime… 🙂

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