Tips for Young Writers 4: Show, don’t tell your story.

I've finally got some more tips!!

Show, don’t tell your story. Think of your story as a movie that plays in the readers imagination. If you can create clear, vivid pictures in their mind, they will really ‘see’ your story unfolding – that means they will get more involved in it and they’ll remember it better. Pictures stay with us in a way that ideas and feelings don’t. We will probably forget the feeling of a broken leg, long before we forget the sight of it. Show them the broken legs in your story, don't just mention them.