Back to Creative Writing basics: showing vs telling

Any seasoned writer will know this: showing trumps telling, any time, any day. This show, not tell adage applies to all genres of creative writing, whether it's fiction (books, poetry, short stories) or non-fiction (memoir, literary journalism, lyric essay). In show, not tell, writers are urged to describe the various aspects in a story (character, …

Writing for impact: how to connect and engage

We all write for a variety of reasons—to promote, to entertain, to educate, to empower... Across all forms of media and communications, however, lies a single, underlying desire: to connect. Connection is what enables us to form and grow relationships, whether in business or in our personal lives. So when people obsess solely over SEO …