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Robyn Cadwallader offers advice on how to make a restricted setting compelling.
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Setting
A strong sense of place can enrich every other element of your narrative, transporting your reader to the world in which your story is set as well as adding real atmosphere to your scenes as your plot unfolds. This collection of advice articles bring together a wealth of advice on how to build and develop the setting of a book.
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For me, the when and where is as important as the who and what. In fiction the actual setting (geography) and the ephemeral setting (historical...
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23rd September 2020
Author Polly Ho-Yen discusses setting in writing, and why it's important to remember that writing is - first and foremost - about living.
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16th September 2020
Writing in a real historical setting is problematic at best, and some settings are more troublesome than others. Even the most documented historical...
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18th September 2020
Writer Cecilia Ekbäck discusses the importance of place in Scandinavian literature and how this has influenced her debut novel, Wolf Winter.Â
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15th September 2020
Perhaps the most obvious way of doing this is by positioning characters in opposition to nature, usually in a place unfamiliar to them. The wind...