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Showing vs. Telling and Typing vs. Writing: Why Movies are not Novels

Showing vs. Telling and Typing vs. Writing: Why Movies are not Novels

by Joseph Malik | Jul 20, 2016 | Writing Craft

Let’s just get this out of the way right now. Movies aren’t books. I keep seeing this again and again in blog posts and on forums: writers touching back on movie scenes as examples of dialogue, pacing, and even character description. This makes me mildly...

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