Part Two: How to Trust Your Reader

26/05/2025 6 min Episodio 43
Part Two: How to Trust Your Reader

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Episode Synopsis

Trusting your reader is one of the most famous phrases in creative writing teaching. But how do we do that? And what might be stopping us? Dr Rachel Knightley explores the temptations of ‘telling’ versus the greater rewards of showing (not explaining) the reactions, feelings and thoughts that illustrate who a character is and why they show up in their world the way they do.
 

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