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Tag: Setting
Setting-Narrative Symbiosis
Throughout my writing tenure I’ve focused more on characters than places. Often that’s to the benefit of the stories I write but some stories call for an in-depth, sensical universe. Rarely a universe but at least a lived-in town. Invariably with my chosen focus what brainpower I expend on settings hit a cookie cutter problem. … Continue reading Setting-Narrative Symbiosis
Setting Up the Bar
I want to run through an exercise for something I’m not particularly versed in. Though that statement gives me an easy out, as I often sit on the writer scale’s far discovery end I don’t put much thought to new environments when I’m building on the preexisting characters. Locations and places have always been barebones … Continue reading Setting Up the Bar