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Amazing but scary and demoralizing in that "I will never, ever be this good a writer if I had 100 years to practice" sort of way

Had this thought while reading one of Gallant's short stories and again here that not only is "show don't tell" one of the most misunderstood pieces of advice in all of storytelling-- but I'll take it a step further and say what we call "telling" (which is already tricky because ask 10 people-- get 10 definitions of what "telling" is in fiction), when done well, is as good as prose gets.