Late night reading

Last night I got sick. I had chills and was very tired. (I’m feeling much better today). However, I slept too much in the evening, and couldn’t sleep for several hours later that night. I woke up at 1am and thought for sure it was almost time to get up. When I saw it was only 1am I groaned. I couldn’t sleep, so I read in a magazine, “The Writer” (I got a subscription for it last Christmas). It has very helpful advice as to how to write well. One thing I kept reading in the magazine was that it is so much better to show how a character is (through dialogue, actions, reactions to others), then merely to come right out and say what the character is like.