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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/15833
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Omitting should be an accessible approach, Steven.

"Show, don't tell is a technique often employed in various kinds of texts to enable the reader to experience the story through **action** , **words** , **thoughts** , **senses** , and **feelings** rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description.

If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may **omit** things that he knows and the reader, _if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things_ as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."...

You really should read the rest on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%2C\_don%27t\_tell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%2C_don%27t_tell)

When you know whatever it is that needs to be shown it's fairly simple, omit whatever is not essential to get the point across through the boldly marked mediums above.

You can also "cut" from a climactic scene before it ends or gets cheesy to the "epilogue" or ending of that particular chapter, eg. the handshake doesn't need to end with a strong, firm, long, (etc. adjective drowning the reader), it can simply end with a pause and reach.

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