Tip #20: How to "Show" (not "Tell")

{Put} the reader right in the middle of the action and {describe} the events{*} as they occur, in real time, along with the characters’ reactions, feelings, and actual words.

http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2010/12/show-dont-tell-guest-post-to-be-used.html

* the events = everything (important) that happens.