Writing Active Setting by Mary Buckham

Author:Mary Buckham [Buckham, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
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Publisher: Cantwell Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

This one paragraph description opening the story shows a lot about the character through how she looks at the Setting. The reader is not introduced to the crime scene as a laundry list of narrative description — building, location, time of day. No, the author threads all of this information throughout the character’s description of the Setting in such a subtle way that the reader is pulled deeper into the story and the skin of the POV character while actively moving the story forward.

We learn that Merci can multi-task and take in many different details at once, a good characteristic for an investigator to have, and something the author can use to slip in other important details later in the story without the reader feeling its strange for Merci to notice. The paragraph also lets us know that Merci covers her uncomfortable emotions with snarky thoughts — a place like this, ocean front in San Clemente, would run you two grand a month and you still got termites in your walkway and spider webs high in the porch corners. Later, if Merci does this again, the reader can assume she’s uncomfortable in some way.

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