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Setting

Setting. Creating A Story World. Bring Your Readers In.

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Setting

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  1. Setting Creating A Story World

  2. Bring Your Readers In I like to refer to writing setting as the need for creating a virtual reality -- a sort of vital quicksand that will suck and trap our readers so completely into our worlds and our stories that they cannot -- nor will they wish to -- escape before we release them at the end of the tale. --Michaela Roessner

  3. Building Blocks • 1) Sights • 2) Sounds • 3) Smells • 4) Taste • 5) Touch -- Remember that the sense of touch includes texture, pressure, temperature, etc. • 6) Proprioception • (What’s that?!)

  4. Proprioception The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself. In humans, these stimuli are detected by nerves within the body itself, as well as by the semicircular canals of the inner ear. "proprioception." The American Heritage® Science Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company. 15 Sep. 2013. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proprioception>.

  5. Setting Affects Tone In some rooms you are always trapped; you enter them with grim purpose and escape them as soon as you can. Others invite you to settle in, to nestle or carouse. Some landscapes lift your spirits, others depress you. Cold weather gives you energy or bounce, or else it clogs your head and makes you huddle, struggling. You describe yourself as a “night person” or a “morning person.” The house you loved as a child now makes you, precisely because you were once happy there, think of loss and death. Janet Burroway

  6. Setting Affects Character A character’s emotional response to a setting reveals something about the character. This can function as a foreshadowing device

  7. Setting AS Character • Personified Settings • Antagonist • Deuteragonist • Protagonist (especially in Speculative Fiction) • Non-personified Settings • Dangerous or pristine, etc., by its very nature • Can’t act as a protagonist without personification

  8. Other Ways Setting Functions • Motivation & conflict in plotlines • Foreshadowing or misdirection • Build suspense, tension, expectation • Help provide non-expository exposition • Further explanation without “the lecture” • Vehicle for metaphor or enhance metaphor • Baseline for your readers’ virtual reality

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