Less Is More When It Comes to Setting
On Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive. Today’s post is from A Peek inside the…
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12 Questions to Ask Your Character about the Setting She Is In
On Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at excerpts from past posts on Live Write Thrive Today’s post is from Settings in Your Novel…
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…
Infusing Your Settings with Emotion
Editor Robin Patchen wraps up our look at fatal flaw #10: Description Deficiencies and Excesses (If you’ve missed the other posts…
Connecting Your Characters to Settings in Your Novel
We’ve been looking at settings in your novel: the overall milieu or locale that your story takes place in, as…
Showing Settings through the Eyes of Your Characters
“It is impossible to powerfully capture a place via objective description—at least to capture it in a way that readers…
How Settings and Locale Shape Us and the Characters We Create
If you think settings in a novel are inconsequential, think again. Consider for a moment how locale has shaped you….
Setting with a Purpose
Sad but true, setting and locale in novels is mostly ignored. It’s as if writers feel they must sacrifice attention…
A Peek inside the Envelope
Sol Stein, the famous editor, author, and writing instructor, has a very short chapter in his classic book Stein on…
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