The Meta-Recipe

Show? Tell? Follow the “Rules”?

Today’s re-blog draws parallels between Writing and Cooking :-)

M.C. Tuggle, Writer

Things got a little heated at the last meeting of our Sci-Fi/Fantasy critique group. One member said that the manuscript under review did not work. The reason, he insisted, was that a scene lasting two paragraphs of a ten-page story was exposition, and as everyone knows, “showing is better than telling.”

I disagree. Sometimes you enhance the pace with a little exposition. For e...