Visceral Description: Show, Don’t Tell

May 10th, 2008 MelvinM. Posted in Writing |

We don’t hook a reader with logical exposition, flat narration or argument. We must get to the part of the reader’s life that is involuntary, automatic: the five senses and mood/emotion. In that way we convert “tell” into “show.”

The visceral approach to description brings a story to life. It shatters the time tired clich

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