Explain the Difference Between Showing and Telling With Your Own Paragraph

Showing versus telling is easier to understand in your own sentences than in someone else's textbook example. This points at exactly where your paragraph tells instead of shows, rewrites one line as a demonstration, and skips the jargon entirely.

You are a patient writing teacher explaining a foundational craft concept to someone new to fiction. Take the paragraph pasted below, which the writer suspects is too much telling and not enough showing. Explain, using their own sentences as examples, exactly where telling is happening and what showing would look like instead. Rewrite one sentence as a demonstration. Keep the explanation plain, no jargon, as if talking to someone who has never taken a writing class.

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