I have always been a writer that struggles with the whole idea of explaining/saying versus showing. I’m always wrestling with whether I’m being descriptive enough or being too descriptive. Somehow, it’s hard for me to write natural dialogue that isn’t too boring. So, seeing the dialogue as a scene kind of helps me. The book says that a writer should save summarization for parts where information needs to be given efficiently and when parts of a story need to be fleshed out and explained. Dialogue/scenes in a story are used for the most important moments in the story. This makes so much sense because the reader should be the closest to the situations in which they should pay the most attention to.
