THE ROAD TO TYRANNY IS PAVED IN TELL
As we’ve discussed, Show, when done right, activates fiction’s dramatic and immersive superpowers. By recreating experience, Show fires up immediacy, urgency, and helps open the gates that allow readers to enter into other minds, other worlds, other experiences.
(As we’ve also seen, a big part of what makes Show — well, Show — is its powerful link to audience.)
But Show’s narrative might ain’t limited to its dramaticity or immersiveness. Show, you see, has a second superpower, less obvious, less discussed, but essential to its primacy: its collaborativeness.