Actions Speak Louder than Adjectives

This week's Gotham (the part of a story arc from last week) really speaks to me as a piece of exceptional writing. Most shows (and many books) give you a character who's described as powerful and ruthless. This one shows you Fish's calculating intelligence, her planning, her charisma and leadership. It shows you the qualities, in action, that earned her the adjectives "powerful" and "ruthless." This, for me, pops Fish from (well-acted) mob-boss in waiting into a compelling, three-dimensional character.

I need to think about how to do this with my current WIP.

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