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Showdown, Don’t Tell: Keeping a Consistent Narrative Voice

June 15, 2025 by Paul Martz

Fiction writers have a lot of rules. “Show, don’t tell” sits near the top of the rulebook, right up there with point of view (POV), use of said tags, and eliminating adverbs. But sometimes we follow those rules straight into a literary box canyon. So take off your cowboy hat, …

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