Mirrors and Ways to SHOW not TELL Write Better, Author Smarter with Autumn Bardot

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 Mirrors are symbolic of vanity, truth clarity, illumination, distortion, and a reflection of one's soul. All of these can help you SHOW emotion, characterization, conflict, setting, worldview, and plot.   

Things to be considered if there's a mirror in your story: 

How does the character look into the mirror ( gaze, ponder, glance, stare, grimace, etc ) How is the mirror framed? 

Gilded, modern, minimalist, industrial, chipped?

 Is the glass ancient, new, distorted, clean, fogged, dirty? 

How big or small is the mirror? 

What else is reflected in the mirror? 

What is not reflected in the mirror?  

ALL these things can—if you chose—SHOW the character’s personality, emotion, setting, conflict, worldview, and more! Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the showiest of them all?

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