on Live Write Thrive:
Writing fiction these days is all about using cinematic style. What that means is rather than explain and summarize the action in a scene, writers play out the action “moment by moment” by “shooting” the scene the way a filmmaker would. While there is a huge difference between the story on the written page and the movie presented on a screen, there is the potential for a lot of crossover.
Fiction allows readers to get into the heads and thoughts of characters, and while film can do similarly with a voice-over technique, it’s not often done. Conversely, film shows every little detail the characters see around them, and if fiction writers tried to describe all that, their scenes would be bogged down so much that readers would get bored and stop reading.
There is a fine art to adopting cinematic technique to the page, translating and transforming what you, the writer, see in your head as the action so that readers can be drawn into the experience of the story in a tactile, palpable way.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Great article. I’m a member of two local writing groups, and ‘show not tell’ for parts or all a piece of writing is a frequent comment. We encourage stories to be ‘visual’, and knowing when and how information can be incorporated into a story, rather than being an ‘info dump’. My Mother’s memoir ‘What Glass Ceiling?’ which I wrote was from her perspective from a seven year old to 93 and published eight months prior to her death. The book shows unintentional leadership, inclusive of social expectations for working women/and then together with a family. One of my writing groups was instrumental, for 8 1/2 years, in keeping it on track in showing not telling her story.
I’d encourage writers to attend your workshop to see ‘show not tell’ in action.
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