| "show, don't tell" - but...
I keep hearing the advice that in a college essay, you should "show" and not merely "tell" about something. This, I think, is much harder to do than it sounds!
It seems hard to find an event to describe that, on it's own, reveals a lot about me as a person. If I write something that is vivid and alive, it seems to lack any real information about me. To counter that, I've tried writing more reflective essays. These explain who I am, and yet they seem dull. I've then tried the middle ground- a 'showing' part leading into a reflection. The transition is hard to do, and I then feel like I'm wasting words on telling a story that doesn't reveal who I am.
So what to do? How do you go about this "showing not telling" in practice? |