Show, Don't Tell: A Look at Four Great Songs for Writers
A breakdown of how Jason Isbell and Bruce Springsteen employ the storytelling concept of showing, not telling in their music.
Over the years, one of the lessons I've found hardest to teach my journalism students is, when writing about any person, action, or event, to rely not on adjectives (“the greatest and best”) or subjective interpretation (“the most terrible I’ve seen…”) but to paint pictures that help the reader draw their own conclusions about the subject.
This concept o…
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