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Describing The Setting Itself

1. Begin With The Basics

  • Where did the story take place?
  • When did the story happen?
  • What’s the weather or climate like?
  • What are the social or community conditions?
  • What is the landscape like?
  • What special details make it clear to understand?

2. Is It A Specific or Quick description?

  • Try to describe the character in a wider setting and gradually narrow to a specific location. Go from a description of the country/state/region, then move to the town, then neighborhood of the town.
  • You may also want to go from physical setting to the population by describing the type of people who live in the town. This is a common way to transition from inanimate objects to living beings that think, feel, and care. This starts to give the story meaning.

3. Keep The 5 senses Involved

  • Think about what the room smells like. What does the sand feel like under the characters feet? Is the edge of mountain cutting into the character’s hands? Describe the way the character’s favorite meal tastes.
  • For example: She entered the front parlor. Lady MacDougall sat enthroned like Queen Victoria on a blue chintz-covered settee and motioned Elizabeth to take the matching armchair opposite. The salmon-painted walls made the duchess’ white hair glow pink. Elizabeth flinched when a log shifted in the blazing fire in the enormous fireplace surrounded by the marble the previous Lord MacDougall had brought back from Egypt himself.

4. Don’t Let The Description Get In The Way Of The Story

  • The setting should enhance the story, not block it. This can happen if you stop in the middle of the scene to provide a lengthy description of the world around the characters. Instead of providing separate setting description in the middle of a scene, describe the setting through the characters’ actions. The setting should be integrated along with what the characters are doing.
  • For example, if the character is running from a vampire in the woods, don’t stop and describe how scary the woods are. Have the character notice how dark it is and the lack of sound. Have the character trip over an exposed root and get a cut on her cheek from a branch. Focus on how the character can’t see anything, but can hear the footsteps behind her. This incorporates the setting with the action so it doesn’t block the story.

5. Show, Don’t Tell

“Don’t say the old lady screamed, bring her on and let her scream.”

- Mark Twain

  • To do this, use vivid language. Choose nouns and descriptive adjectives to describe the setting. Use concrete action verbs.
  • Telling: The girls were excited.
  • Showing: Giggles and screams filled the arena. The soft curls were now damp with perspiration and the anticipation of the event. They held tight to each other in a mock effort to contain themselves. Arms flailed upward, and voices echoed in varying tones. The moment was here.

6. Focus Only On The Important Details

Choosing The Setting

1. Begin With Location

Start by choosing a country, state, region, city, or town. You can be more specific, such as describing a neighborhood or a street. Decide if your location is an urban city, a farm, islands, or mountains.

2. Describe The Room

  • When you do this, setting helps give meaning to your story.
  • For example: The walls were made of dark stone, dimly lit by torches. Empty benches rose on either side of him, but ahead, in the highest benches of all, were many shadowy figures. They had been talking in low voices, but as the heavy door swung closed behind Harry an ominous silence fell.

3. Time Setting Is Key

  • Time of day. Does your story happen in the morning, the middle of the day, or at night? Each time of day has a specific association with it. Also keep in mind the different ways that characters may act at various times in the day.
  • Time of year. Is your story set in the summer, the winter, or the spring? Is it centered around a holiday, like Christmas or Halloween? Time of year can also include the anniversary of a significant historical or personal event.
  • Elapsed time. Think about the transition of time in your story. This includes hours and even months. You have to describe the passing of time through the setting. This can be time progressing as the story unfolds, or situating the reader within a flashback.

4. Weather

  • If your story is set in a harsh climate, you need to describe this for your reader. Describe the difficulties of living in the desert or arctic temperatures. Or explain the ease with which someone lives in their beach house.
  • For example: And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm, the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.

5. Geography

  • Think about geographical formations, like mountains, rivers, lakes, or forests. The character should interact with these things and they should be important to the story. Otherwise, ask yourself why you are setting the story there in the first place.

6. Historical, Social, and Cultural Settings

  • Think about social and political settings. This is important for a modern or historical story. These things influence the values and actions of the characters.
  • Cultural settings can include religion, traditions, and community interaction. Population of your location can play into this. Is the place densely populated, or is it remote?

Use Character To Describe Setting

1. Action

  • Have the character react to the setting. This can provide important character and plot development.

2. Experience

  • A native New Yorker would describe the subway very differently than someone from a southern, rural farm. Decide whose point of view you want to describe the scene from and why it’s important to get that character’s perspective.

3. Mood

  • Think about how a high school freshman and senior would view a school dance. The freshman might be excited because it’s her first dance, while a senior may groan and complain about being there. A kid who has been bullied may be afraid of going to the dance in case the people who bully him are there, while the popular president of the student council is excited to see all her friends at the dance.
  • Plot events can also affect the mood of the character. A forest stroll in the afternoon may be a relaxing event for one character, while another character may be lost in the woods and be scared.

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If your book requires a lot of scene changes, you should learn how to craft unique locations that help drive your story forward. In fantasy novels (or just most novels in general), no one wants to read a book where all the scenes takes place in the same location. Obviously this depends on your story, but you’ll most likely need to switch it up a bit.

Think about Harry Potter—most of the early books take place at Hogwarts, but Hogwarts is so interesting and there are so many mysteries, it never gets boring. Hogwarts itself is a location, but all the pieces that make up Hogwarts keep it fascinating. Even if the story does take place in the same location, you need to make that location interesting. There can be different aspects of it that you and your readers can explore, just like at Hogwarts.

Here are a few ways to craft unique and interesting locations for your story:

Think about how your scene would change in a different location.

Try imagining a scene in different locations and see what’s most interesting. A scene in a science fiction story might be more interesting in a busy space port, than in a boring normal room. The locations you choose should affect the story somehow. For example, a space port would allow you to explore the different types of people in your sci-fi world, which would let you explain how people interact with each other. Use the genre to your advantage and craft your locations accordingly.

P.S. I don’t really know if a space port is a real thing, but in my mind it’s an airport for space ships in the future. ^_^

Let your locations motivate you.

There are certain scenes that get me excited and I can’t wait to write them. That can have a lot to do with the location of your scene. If there’s a really cool place you want to explore in your own story, you’re probably excited about getting to it. That will help you stay on point with your writing goals. Don’t be afraid to try something new or create a location that you’re not sure is going to work. You might surprise yourself and add unique elements to your story you wouldn’t have otherwise. Locations can inspire you to take your story in a new direction, so let them!

If there’s a location you’re not sure about, take a little extra time to plan it out.

Sometimes we don’t plan out our locations enough because we think they’ll flesh themselves out. However, if you don’t truly know the scene you’re about to write, you run the risk of creating a boring story. Maybe sketch a room or write down what you want to be included. This might help you in the long run because you’ll have something to reference back to. You’ll also be able to figure out what you want each character to be doing and what the possible distractions are. Write enough so that your readers will be able to visualize it too.

-Kris Noel

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I have been waiting so long for the dream address to this island because it is one of my absolute favorites. I am so inspired by this island. I will most likely be visiting this dream again in the future. It is a modern island that has a realistic streets vibe. I am just amazed by the use of custom designs and how they used the puzzle item to create a deteriorating road effect. Highly recommend visiting this dream.

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