Show, don't tell — detector
Naming emotions instead of grounding them in the body? The AI spots your 'tell' passages and proposes two 'show' rewrites for each.
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Why hunt 'tell' in your prose?
Why it's so hard to spot in your own work. When you write, you know what your character feels. You have it in your head. So you write 'he was anxious' and move on. Six months later, rereading, you still don't see the problem — you have the memory of the emotion, so it feels present in the text. But it isn't. It's in your head.
What this detector does. You paste an excerpt (between 100 and 3000 characters). The AI spots 3-6 passages where you tell instead of show, quotes each verbatim, explains in one sentence why it's weak, and proposes two 'show' rewrites per passage — so you can choose the register. It closes with the guiding principle to apply to the rest of your text.
When to use it. On a first draft, before handing it to anyone. On a chapter that feels 'flat' without you knowing why. On a high-emotion scene where you sense the reader won't cry. On passages where you wrote 'he thought that', 'she felt', 'he wondered' — all the verbs that announce you're going to TELL instead of SHOW.
Limits of the tool. Show, don't tell isn't an absolute law. Some passages — transitions, summaries, omniscient narration — require telling quickly. The AI spots but doesn't judge global narrative relevance. You decide what serves your pacing.
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