Brooks & Warren on Showing & Telling · 5:16am Jul 21st, 2015
I say 1 A.M. Tuesday still counts as Monday.
I think I’m going to post part of the introduction to each chapter of Understanding Fiction by Brooks & Warren, 3rd edition (1979), to summarize their main ideas about fiction. This one is a digression, so you get it out of order. In the intro to chapter 3, “What Character Reveals”, they talk about showing versus telling while talking about characters.