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Re:‘Show, Don’t Tell’ Almost Ruined Me as a Writer by cryptonector on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @06:56PM (#21209085)
Right, there's that as well. Because we experience nervousness differently, you might as well tell the reader that the character is nervous.

Again, I take "tell" to be about characters telling the reader important details by unnecessarily saying them in dialog to other characters.

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