Yeah, I think it's a matter of picking and choosing. That's interesting about characters doing the telling, I hadn't thought about that as telling because it does show somehing the character does, but I guess if characters take over extensively as narrators (as in Wuthering Heights, for instance) that distinction may be blurred.
Showing vs. telling also seems to be a matter of literary trends as well, since there seems to be a lot more telling in older novels--Jane Austen's books, Middlemarch, even 20th century books like The Great Gatsby. I remember reading that it has to do with readers becoming so much more accustomed to visual media and wanting that kind of immediacy in their text media as well.
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Date: 2016-08-07 04:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think it's a matter of picking and choosing. That's interesting about characters doing the telling, I hadn't thought about that as telling because it does show somehing the character does, but I guess if characters take over extensively as narrators (as in Wuthering Heights, for instance) that distinction may be blurred.
Showing vs. telling also seems to be a matter of literary trends as well, since there seems to be a lot more telling in older novels--Jane Austen's books, Middlemarch, even 20th century books like The Great Gatsby. I remember reading that it has to do with readers becoming so much more accustomed to visual media and wanting that kind of immediacy in their text media as well.