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iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
I love deft, little #ShowDon'tTell moments, and here, in the musical title sequence for #CasinoRoyale, is a great one:

Vesper Lynd is "two-faced," and here, the reticle reveals her face atop the Queen of Hearts, a nifty, little bit of foreshadowing.

This is a good #movie 🤓

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I get it! I get things in movies!
January 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
kaygoodstadt.bsky.social
THIS‼️👏✨
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mishellbaker.bsky.social Mishell Baker, who did NOT die @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 19d
This writing advice circulating proves once again that very few people understand what "Show, don't tell," is even supposed to mean.

It means don't say, "John became angry." Instead, say, "John punched the wall."

This is actually one of the few pieces of writing advice I VEHEMENTLY agree with.
December 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
inkedwerdsmith.bsky.social
I’ve never found a better example of “show, don’t tell.” She literally described her character arc in fifteen seconds…

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October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
iamkaymichelle.bsky.social
#ShowDon'tTell

#GoodDialogue typically isn't advancing #plot, it's revealing #character & motivations. I think of #exposition as a sometimes-necessary evil, but the joy of #goodwriting & #dialogue is when it's showing, not telling, us

Here, #CarrollShelby so clearly determined, willful

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Carroll Shelby gets lit on fire, put out, and when everyone is gawking wondering if he's okay, he's perplexed and agitated, "FINISH IT! FILL THE TANK!" Shelby needs everyone onside here, and so he asks the pertinent question (the ONLY pertinent question, he'd have us believe), "AM I ON GODDAM FIRE?" And, as he asks it, the answer is actually no. Once they twig to that, and what that means, he's got them all back on board and working as a team again. Carroll Shelby is driven and maniacal, but he's also a consensus builder (of SORTS; he's sort of more of a bully sometimes, and I think Howard Roark is the natural comparison point, literarily speaking) and a leader, or what he thinks is a leader. He sees the value in bringing people along, however forcefully, to his point of view. Versus Ken Miles who doesn't GIVE A FUCK what you or anyone thinks about anything. Sheepish, halting, awkward; these people are the opposite of Shelby, who is determined, decisive and a man of action, both in rhetoric and in deed. But he doesn't hate them for being different from him. He knows how to speak to them, even if it's a little harsh for my taste. It was the era, and he is a Great Man, of sorts. We'll meet a few more, too, like Henry Ford II, another Great Man who compares unfavorably to the Great Man we've elected to follow in this narrative. I read this as "... are you fucking kidding me right now?"
September 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
paulag0512.bsky.social
They just have to describe everything lol #TCMParty #SamsonAndDelilah #ShowDon’tTell
August 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
stephaniescheller.bsky.social
What do YOU read behind this kind of outreach message?
Agree or disagree with my thoughts here?

#WhatYouThinkYou’reSaying #ShowDon’tTell
August 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
elaineorr55.bsky.social
Read my thoughts on the important of showing a character's grief in a story. #ShowDon'tTell #Griefstricken elaineorr.blogspot.com/2025/07/show...
Showing Grief and Continuing the Story
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July 19, 2025 at 6:09 AM
svishyn.bsky.social
It’ll rewire how you approach everything from jobs to freelancing.

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#ShowDon’tTell #ValueFirst #CareerHacks #FreelanceTips
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June 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
putrzenski.bsky.social
Bought a camera
To better learn the art
of photography

Didn't quite consider
I'd take fewer photographs
but create more art

#Photography
#d33p_6
#Experimental
#LearningToShootManual
#ShowDon'tTell

Photo taken at Falling Waters State Park, Florida
April 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
lydiapedsdoc.bsky.social
Got to meet another favorite author tonight, @csittenfeld.bsky.social
She was hilarious and I can’t wait to read her new short story collection, #ShowDon’tTell 💙
Me standing next to Curtis Sittenfeld, holding up her new book. I look a bit chunky.
March 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
dannyve.bsky.social
Next up on the reading pile: #ShowDon’tTell by #CurtisSittenfeld!
Me, to self: ‘Pace yourself, savour it & don’t wolf it down!’
Also me to self: ‘Who are you kidding?’
March 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
saunterwing.bsky.social
In this idea borrowed from @silenceyoursword.bsky.social
(www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...)
Abby should know better...
But she wouldn't be Abby if she did!

Would your OC get into the #FreeCandyVan?
What would happen afterwards?

#ShowDon'tTell, Put together some art and quote-post it!

#BDSM #DID
January 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM