“As I laid on my side, I opened my eyes to tall, wet, grass, with the shadows from the trees enveloping my body.” In my opinion, that paragraph had the best show not tell description I have ever written. I had a note on my paper from one of the students that read this piece, who said, “Where are you?” But I do not agree with that comment because many writers leave people guessing in the first paragraph of their stories, to give the reader a sense of excitement and curiosity, so they will want to keep
“As I laid on my side, I opened my eyes to tall, wet, grass, with the shadows from the trees enveloping my body.” In my opinion, that paragraph had the best show not tell description I have ever written. I had a note on my paper from one of the students that read this piece, who said, “Where are you?” But I do not agree with that comment because many writers leave people guessing in the first paragraph of their stories, to give the reader a sense of excitement and curiosity, so they will want to keep