Overview
"Show don't tell" is the most repeated piece of writing advice and the least understood. It does not mean "describe everything" — it means "let the reader feel what the character feels by giving them the same sensory and behavioral information the character has, not a summary of the conclusion." The difference between "she was angry" and the specific way anger lives in a body, a room, a conversation.
The Show Don't Tell Prompt generates passages where emotion and interiority are communicated entirely through specific physical detail, behavior, perception, and action — without naming the emotion, without explaining the character's state, without summarizing what the reader should feel.
What you get: - The emotion or state to be shown (named, so the writer knows the target) - The physical and behavioral manifestations specific to this character - A complete passage showing the emotion without naming it - Three alternative approaches (body, environment, behavior) - A before/after comparison
Built for: Novelists, short story writers, and any writer who wants readers to feel rather than be told.