Blog #3: Don't Tell it on the Mountain, Show it Instead

Retell a time in which you stole something (interpret this as literally or metaphorically as you wish).  Take us back to the moment of theft; pepper it with sensory detail; flesh it out into a full blown scene.  Because this memory will hold some measure of conflict for you, I want to understand those feelings of conflict through the details, not what you tell me I should feel.  How might you describe the people in the scene in a way that reveals your feelings towards them?  Which details of the place itself will you choose to include that will help show us how you felt at the time?  If you are nervous, for instance, how might you show us this through physical actions rather than telling us so?  If there is a poster on the wall that is particularly revealing, how might you use it as a prop to show us how to understand the tension in the moment?  While you're not writing a riddle, and telling details have their place too, let's practice recognizing the power of showing rather than telling your reader how to interpret a scene with this blog.