Video: Leveraging Sight for “Show Don’t Tell” in Sci-Fi

Since nature’s full of beings who can see light and motion in different and unique ways, it seems fair that fiction reflects this world. So let’s talk about how I enrich a story with sensory writing that shows what’s normally unseen.

Chapters and Key Moments

00:00 - Intro

00:28 - Show, Don’t Tell using Visual Acuity for Sci-Fi Characters

01:05 - Using a Character’s Field of Vision for Descriptive Writing

01:58 - When Describing Movement within a Scene, Show, Don’t Tell

03:10 - Playing with Color and Light Sensing in Descriptive Writing