How Writers Can Bring Setting to Life through Personification
Today’s post is by Becca Puglisi. Settings can be tricky for authors. In our desire to firmly ground readers in…
Today’s post is by Becca Puglisi. Settings can be tricky for authors. In our desire to firmly ground readers in…
Editor Robin Patchen wraps up our look at fatal flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses (If you’ve missed the other posts…
We’ve been looking at settings in your novel: the overall milieu or locale that your story takes place in, as…
“It is impossible to powerfully capture a place via objective description—at least to capture it in a way that readers…
If you think settings in a novel are inconsequential, think again. Consider for a moment how locale has shaped you….
Sad but true, setting and locale in novels is mostly ignored. It’s as if writers feel they must sacrifice attention…
Sol Stein, the famous editor, author, and writing instructor, has a very short chapter in his classic book Stein on…
During this year of delving into the heart of your story, I’ve only touched a little on setting. I haven’t…
One of the essential things you need to do in your first scene is ground your protagonist in her setting….
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