Many writers focus on their characters or their plot. Fantasy and science fiction writers will create fantastic and intricate settings that are shown off over the course of their books, like a fancy car they have to show all their friends. But where’s the middle ground? Setting is the stage for all of your plotContinue reading “There’s No Place Like Home: Setting in Fiction”
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Ideas and Conceptualization
So far this month I’ve discussed fiction genres and narration with an eye toward helping those planning on writing during National Novel Writing Month. It can be handy to start big and work inward, so the tasks so far have only been general. This week we start getting serious. This is a big entry, so take it in stages! I’ve given suggestions for starting to brainstorm on characters, setting, and plot, but I’ll be getting into them in more detail in coming weeks, so if you don’t have everything you may need yet, that’s okay. We’ll get there. The goal this week is to start distilling ideas you have into a more focused concept.
Marie Efromson 