Tag: setting tips

This month we’ve talked about great settings and ways to write your own great setting for your own masterpiece. And it has been an absolute delight getting to talk about this overlook element of writing and literature, so I wanted to continue celebrating this series with another really fun post.

Today, I want to talk about setting that are underrepresented in literature and writing. I’m taking about the settings most authors don’t write about or the ones I want to see because I think they have a lot of unexplored potential. It’s a hard concept to explain without just doing it, so let’s dive in head first and you’ll get the gist:

While pretty much everyone would agree that characters make a story and a good plot is a necessary element, sometimes people overlook the importance of the setting. This month, while I’ve been patriotic thinking about my home, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about settings in novels and it has actually helped me with my own writing (I do write some if you didn’t know from all my NaNoWriMo posts last year)

Today I wanted to talk about common setting mistakes authors make, because I think it’s something we don’t discuss enough. A lot of times my creative writing kiddos come to me understanding the importance of the characters or asking for help with their plot, but setting is often overlooked and a good setting can really help a story. It’s also one of the most difficult things to get truly right if you want your setting to be an important plot of your story. And since I love talking about writing as much as I love discussing reading, let’s jump in to the discussion: