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9 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Instead of telling readers how a character feels, use the setting to show it. In a scene about handling a dead daughter's belongings, placing it in her bedroom with her soccer uniform still on the wall lets the grief speak without you saying it.

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Here's a pretty obvious writing hack. Let the setting show the emotion. So 2 characters need to talk about what to do with the belongings of somebody that died. So if you have this just happen over the phone, it's going to be boring. But if you put them in the daughter's room where her soccer uniform is still hanging on the wall, now you've written the grief in the setting and you've shown it without having to tell it at all. The setting carries the emotion so the dialogue and the action don't have to. For more writing tips, subscribe below.

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