Scookie Reviews

It turns out you have to work pretty hard at your last year of uni. I really should have seen this coming, but I don't think I'll be able to keep blogging until late December. I may post here and there if I do manage to squeeze some time out, otherwise I'll be back at Christmas with more tips, featured novels, and lots of free critiques!

You can always go one step back or forward along the show/tell spectrum. Sentences aren’t dichotomous . It isn’t as simple as one sentence shows and the other tells, but more to do with how much a sentence shows and how much it tells. For example: He was angry -> he frowned -> his eyebrows pulled together into an angry look. Where you need to be on the spectrum depends on the importance of the imagery. Is the character’s ghastly frown a pivotal moments or a strong feature of characterisation? Or is it just a quick frown like a passing thought which adds to the scene in a less imposing manor? Sometimes you may feel like you’ve already gone as far down the spectrum as needed and someone will tell you to go further – you need to decide how much showing adds to the story and if it can be told better. ----- On a side note, the workload for my degree is getting pretty heavy right now. I’ll aim to put out one post a week until it loosens up, although I already have a few more ‘s...