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Your Hosts:\xa0DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
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\nFew pieces of writing advice get repeated as much as that old saw "show, don't tell." We're here to show tell you that it's not only not universally applicable, much of the time it's wrong\xb9. Tell, don't show, especially in the early pages of the book when so very, very much information needs to be delivered\xb2 quickly.
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\nCredits:\xa0This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson
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\n\xb9 Fun fact: this advice comes to us from silent film, when it made great artistic sense to put things on screen rather than on title cards.
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