Showing vs. Telling: How Do We Choose?

Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author :

One of the most common pieces of writing advice is to Show, Don’t Tell. In many cases, that’s good advice, as our readers want to experience the story along with the characters. But as with most advice, that “rule” is imperfect and incomplete.

As I mentioned in my introduction to my WHW Writing Coach post about how to skip time in our stories:

Unless we’re writing a story in the include-every-minute mode of the TV show 24 (and even that sh...