"Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus."

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Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose

— Laurie Alberts