Category: Setting
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On Setting, Part 3: Crafting Unique and Memorable Action Scenes
Before we launch into this, a caveat: what I will discuss here is a more critical technique for screenwriting than for novels or short stories. As I outline in this post on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, I firmly believe that the strength of the written story, even in an action sequence, is…
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On Setting, Part 2: Characterization
It’s almost trite at this point to tell writers of fiction that they should “show, not tell” what’s going on around their characters and in their minds. One way to do this is let setting do some of the heavy lifting of characterization. This is especially doable if you have early scenes set in a…
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On Setting, Part 1: Mood, Lord of the Rings, and the Shire
Setting is so critical to any work of fiction. Today I am starting a series of posts on setting and how to use to it effectively to: set mood/ create emotion assist in characterization add unique, memorable elements to action scenes The first thing any writer probably thinks of, when they think about setting, is…
