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Since I'm a cartoonist, how am I not doomed to show? It had been a political device used for creative conservatism. Universalized as some storytelling truth. Another magic key.
Closest source is this paywalled new yorker article, yet I can't remember the source. So I can't provide full citation.
This conceptual distinction was made, artificial. Maybe there are some takes on it that resonate. Yet the dubious origin remains the same. Show, tell? Don't matter. Only matters for mass cult appeal.
It all feels like wasted effort to pontificate, especially on the internet. Being a micro medium platform as it is. It is not needed.
The intuitive process of uncovering the story is marred with a jackhammer approach, situational happenings are replaced with calculated beats with the process of trying to make a hit.
Yet creativity withstanding, there is no formula to making a hit. That's plot at it's worst.
Following Stephan King's modus operandi. Doing it intuitively can work
(Yet it's easier to fall into a sunk cost.)
Revised my position, have since figured that it can be a tool for genre adherence. At its best it's a signpost of stuff that's been done before, obligatory scenes of a genre with a new spin, stuff like that makes a genre story make sense.
Following Stephan King's modus operandi. Doing it intuitively can work
(Yet it's easier to fall into a sunk cost.)
Revised my position, have since figured that it can be a tool for genre adherence. At its best it's a signpost of stuff that's been done before, obligatory scenes of a genre with a new spin, stuff like that makes a genre story make sense.