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Description and Setting Ideas for Fiction Writers
94 very clever ideas to make your descriptions and settings more effective and bring your scenes to life on the page,
The three different types of setting
The 10 purposes a setting might have
Essential photography skills
How to research a location before you visit it, so you make the most of your time there
What to do if you can't visit the place you need to write about
How settings change over time
Why the setting can be the main focus of the story
Why you always have to be specific - and how to do it
How to make your settings and descriptions unique
7 different ways in which the weather can affect your story
How to stop your readers from skipping bits
How to see things as a writer does, and as an artist does
How strangers see places versus how you see them
How to add colour and use your senses
How to adapt and redesign the places you already know
Why readers forget where they are - and what to do about it
How to combine action and description to control the pace
How to explore hidden meanings
The best ways to use your holidays to research stories
How to invent a new country
How to match your characters to their settings - and vice versa
How your mood affects your descriptions
Plus lots of ways to make your descriptions and settings more realistic
And much more - far too many great ideas to list here!
The three different types of setting
The 10 purposes a setting might have
Essential photography skills
How to research a location before you visit it, so you make the most of your time there
What to do if you can't visit the place you need to write about
How settings change over time
Why the setting can be the main focus of the story
Why you always have to be specific - and how to do it
How to make your settings and descriptions unique
7 different ways in which the weather can affect your story
How to stop your readers from skipping bits
How to see things as a writer does, and as an artist does
How strangers see places versus how you see them
How to add colour and use your senses
How to adapt and redesign the places you already know
Why readers forget where they are - and what to do about it
How to combine action and description to control the pace
How to explore hidden meanings
The best ways to use your holidays to research stories
How to invent a new country
How to match your characters to their settings - and vice versa
How your mood affects your descriptions
Plus lots of ways to make your descriptions and settings more realistic
And much more - far too many great ideas to list here!
53 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 2, 2013
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