Mother Goose and Show Don’t Tell

Many books and blog posts have been written about “show don’t tell.” I’m not going to pontificate about it here. As most writers understand, there’s a place for both in a novel.

What I want to talk about here is what that phrase actually means. I want to illustrate what it entails for those places where we definitely want to show. These include action scenes, turning-point scenes, revelation scenes and so forth.

Enter Mother Goose

Before I get started, I must first acknowledge that this idea came from a lesso...