Show, Don’t Tell

Reveal to improve your writing

. . . a moving mosaic of raised umbrellas (Photo by Alex Block on Unsplash)

I remember once watching an impressionist on television, who apparently had so little confidence in his ability to project an accurate representation of his subjects, he felt obliged to tell his audience whom he was ‘doing’. It went a bit like this:

Oh, hello. Basil Fawlty here…