Setting as Character
courtesy of bn.com In some novels, the setting works only as a backdrop, a starting-off point, but in others, the setting brings the story to life. I can still remember the pervasive, dark heaviness of...
View ArticleDescription that Jumps off the Page
Courtesy of bn.com As writers, we always want to weave our description into the story just enough to make it vivid but not so much as to slow the story down. While Dickens may have been able to get...
View ArticleDreaming of Endless Books
Ever after. Imagine the library down the hall. Courtesy of Google Images. Earlier today, I was chatting with my better half, Beau, and I mentioned how I would love to have a library in our future house...
View ArticleA Sense of Home
Cabin with Children Playing by Thomas Birch via Wikimedia Commons Lately I’ve been thinking quite a bit about how to create a sense of home for my main character in my current work-in-progress. Before...
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