This is gonna sound really silly, especially to you published guys, but I FINALLY GOT IT!!!
What, you ask? I finally understand and better yet can demonstrate the difference between showing and telling!
Everyone kept telling me, and I thought I got it...until I was revising the novel that I'm now quering...it suddenly hit me! I can't explain it, but everything finally began to fall into place.
The only thing I can liken it to is learning to ride my motorcycle - I was terrified, and the first few times I was out on it, I thought way too hard about everything I was doing - switch the gears, lean the bike, hand break, back break...then like the 3rd time out, everything fell into place, and I could finally ride without consciously thinking about the mechanics of it.
I finally understand how to show!!!
Anyone else have the same epiphony or am I just ridiculous, and should've understood it all from the beginning?
What, you ask? I finally understand and better yet can demonstrate the difference between showing and telling!
Everyone kept telling me, and I thought I got it...until I was revising the novel that I'm now quering...it suddenly hit me! I can't explain it, but everything finally began to fall into place.
The only thing I can liken it to is learning to ride my motorcycle - I was terrified, and the first few times I was out on it, I thought way too hard about everything I was doing - switch the gears, lean the bike, hand break, back break...then like the 3rd time out, everything fell into place, and I could finally ride without consciously thinking about the mechanics of it.
I finally understand how to show!!!
Anyone else have the same epiphony or am I just ridiculous, and should've understood it all from the beginning?
