Need A Bridge? We’ll highlight two ways that the writer’s text can have a larger impact on the reader (or codeswitching into MFAtalk, to Show, to promote Feeling and Experience). John Gardner lists as a glaring writing failure “the needless filtering of the image through some observing consciousness. The amateur writes: ‘Turning, she noticed two snakes fighting in among the rocks.’ Compare: ‘She turned. In among the rocks two snakes were fighting . . .’ Generally speaking—tho