Learn to bring your scenes to life with stronger character perspective, sensory details, and emotional resonance—without getting bogged down trying to perfect your prose as you draft.
Elevate your writing with five concrete tools for showing, and learn when to use them.
Join Stacy Frazer, Author Accelerator Certified Fiction Book Coach and host of the Write It Scared Podcast, for a 90-minute interactive workshop designed to help you understand one of fiction writing's most important—and often misunderstood—craft principles.
We'll explore when showing serves your story and when telling is better, practice techniques to create more immersive prose, and take a behind-the-scenes look at my own fiction—comparing a rough first draft with a revised version to see how revision strengthens writing.
We'll also talk about how to keep craft concerns from stalling your writing, why some work is best left for revision, and how to give your first drafts the grace they deserve.
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it’s good.”
What You’ll Learn:
When to show, when to tell, and why both matter.
How to use action, dialogue, interiority, sensory details, and specificity to immerse readers in your scenes.
How to recognize opportunities to strengthen your writing during revision.
How to keep perfectionism and craft concerns from slowing down your drafting process.
How to apply these principles to your own work.
Includes a Live Craft Clinic & Q&A
Bring your Show vs. Tell questions and, if you'd like, a short excerpt from your own writing (150 words max). We'll explore how to apply the tools to real writing challenges in an optional, unrecorded live coaching session.
If you'd like to share an excerpt, please come prepared with a specific Show vs. Tell question about it. Participation is voluntary, and time may not allow us to address every question or excerpt.
Saturday, December 19, 2026
90 minutes | Live on Zoom
Can't attend live? Register anyway! A replay of the teaching portion will be available to registered participants. The live craft clinic will not be recorded.
Complimentary access through the Otherworldly Writer Bundle.