video1.0<iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/e294d2e9d0884532a6b97b711a2ae4d4" frameborder="0" width="1280" height="960" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>9601280Loomhttps://www.loom.com9601280https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/e294d2e9d0884532a6b97b711a2ae4d4-7be5652dc6d959e4.gif1113One piece of writing advice that tends to hang up a lot of writers is the infamous “Show Don't Tell.” Unfortunately, it’s become so ubiquitous as to be little more than a cliché and thereby practically meaningless. And yet, it still haunts every writer that I talk to with the gnawing sense that they cannot “tell” anything. In this mini-lecture, I break down what the "Show Don't Tell" advice is intended to communicate, why it fails, and how I recommend writers to think instead.