Mirrors and Ways to SHOW not TELL

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Write Better, Author Smarter with Autumn Bardot

Autumn Bardot

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Discover tips and inspiration to write more, author smarter, and tell your story better. Learn how to amplify character, conflict, and emotion. Get no nonsense advice about the business of writing and authoring. Welcome beautiful writers, I'm Autumn Bardot, a traditionally and indie published author with 11 books. I've taught writing and literary analysis for almost 20 years so my approach to writing comes from both an academic and real-life perspective. Show notes are at autumnbardot.com and Club Autumn on FB. All the links: https://linktr.ee/autumnbardot

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Mirrors and Ways to SHOW not TELL

Write Better, Author Smarter with Autumn Bardot

16 minutes 11 seconds

2 years ago

Mirrors and Ways to SHOW not TELL

#writingtips #writinginspiration

Mirrors are symbolic of vanity, truth clarity, illumination, distortion, and a reflection of one's soul. All of these can help you SHOW emotion, characterization, conflict, setting, worldview, and plot.

Things to be considered if there's a mirror in your story:

How does the character look into the mirror ( gaze, ponder, glance, stare, grimace, etc ) How is the mirror framed?

Gilded, modern, minimalist, industrial, chipped?

Is the glass ancient, new, distorted, clean, fogged, dirty?

How big or small is the mirror?

What else is reflected in the mirror?

What is not reflected in the mirror?

ALL these things can—if you chose—SHOW the character’s personality, emotion, setting, conflict, worldview, and more! Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the showiest of them all?