[stylist] Showing versus telling

Sun Oct 30 23:26:50 UTC 2016

Jane Eyre and A Tale of two Cities are two of my favorites. My favorite
Dickens book however is Great Expectations. I have read this book several
times. Another classic I re-read frequently is Wuthering Heights.

Descriptions of scenery are examples of showing.

Bridgit

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Jacqui I read JaneEyre and I would have never suspected the amount of
conflict in that book is amazing. I kept reading it though I knew the answer
I just never read the book in detail. Some of these books are great because
I find myself picking them up again and re-reading certain sections. I don't
tend to do that with a lot of modern others just the classics. But still my
favorite is the Charles dickens a tale of two cities. I read that kind of
like the Bible in sections. The amazing thing to me is the descriptions of
scenery I would love to describe like that. But my original point I would've
never suspected the amount of conflict in that JaneEyre of course my
favorite other for description is Ernest Hemingway I just can't read too
many of his books at one time because they are so dark 

Shelley, Queen of bells out! 
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> On Oct 30, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist
<stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Shelley,
> Sage words.
> I have wanted to read Jane Eyre for some time having loved the movie 
> from years ago. This seems like a good time to do it and listen for 
> showing and telling.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz     
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joanne 
> Alongi via stylist
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2016 6:36 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Joanne Alongi
> Subject: [stylist] Showing versus telling
> 
> And a note on advice. I have noticed a few things that I'd like to 
> point out. The first thing is I'd like to give you a challenge. Have 
> any of you read lately any of the great American or English literature 
> authors? trollop Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, and the 
> gentleman who wrote Moby Dick Herman Millville. These are specific 
> others that I can site. My challenge is take any one of these authors 
> works and compare the number of telling scenes with the number of 
> showings sings I believe you will find the great preponderance of them 
> will be telling scenes. American, English, world literature professor 
> is all call these classics. There is a great value in both scenes. 
> There is a great value in both types of writing. I would like to 
> encourage you that in order to understand how to write a truly great 
> work you must have both types of scenes because we always need 
> backstory. I just wonder how many of you including myself have read these
works because you will find a great number of telling scenes as opposed to
showing.
> Now the second thing I want to point out is that I have noticed that 
> the people who offer of the greatest amount of advice on this list do 
> not have anything published that I have seen. I have noticed that 
> those who withhold their advice from this group are the ones who are 
> published. Now, I could be wrong I don't know everything but I have 
> noticed that. Perhaps we should all work on publishing something and 
> dispensing with less advice. Just a note from the peanut gallery. Now 
> this is a list and we are all talking about writing so I understand 
> that but I do notice that more lies comes from people that I have not 
> seen any published works for him not even in our newsletter. So, I 
> will not respond to any comments so if you wish to take this topic and 
> run with it enjoy yourself. I do think that the more valuable comments
here are about the showing in versus telling at least on my part.
> OK. I have to finish my second draft and get ready for my book signing 
> and read more American and English literature. I have been reading 
> Charles dickens a tale of two cities and believe me there is a lot of 
> telling scenes in that book. Good luck keep writing,
> 
> Shelley, Queen of bells out! 
> Trespasser by Shelley Alongi (Hardcover) - Lulu Trespasser by Shelley 
> Alongi (Hardcover) - Lulu ]]
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