Show vs. Tell

One of the biggest things I had to learn in my writing process was the difference of showing versus telling. It seemed that from going from my mind to the page only wanted to straight up narrate the story and not add in all the colourful detail that can make a book stand out. For example, when writing an action scene in "The Midnight Hour" I would tell the reader how the cop with the gun aimed at Titan may have been nervous instead of showing him shaking or sweating or anything else to indicate this without coming right out and just saying it.

I ended up having to incorporate it completely in my writing process. I was able to quickly realise the impact of how I was writing it in the overall effect of my story. It seemed like such a simple thing yet, in the early stages of "The Midnight Hour" I was doing it again and again. I can't understate the importance of the entire experience I had in writing that first book. I look back now and I truky can't believe how far I have come. It took me five years from when I first started planning the Titan series to when "The Midnight Hour" first came out. Now it will be just under eighteen months from that book to the second. Show Vs. Tell is one of the big things I am looking for now in this next draft of the book. Hopefully it helps make the reading experience a little better.