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WORLD BUILDING TIP: CRAFT YOUR STORY SETTING

By: Ruthanne Reid

Greetings, fellow word-slingers! This is finals week for me, so today’s post will be an exceptionally broad overview of an exceptionally important topic: your story’s setting. The story setting includes everything that affects your characters. It is the environment in which they live, breathe, and find meaning. It is where they fail and learn to succeed. All this to say, your story’s environment matters.

Why your story’s environment matters

Creating an effective environment is a key facet to your story’s success. It’s part of world-building; and no, we aren’t talking about weather, though naturally, that plays a part. No, my friends, the importance of environment can be summarized in two key reasons:

1. The environment determines the ways in which your characters respond to your plot’s stimuli (i.e., when you throw rocks at them). The way your character thinks is largely determined by who they hang out with, by the prevailing political systems, by the economic and technological advancement of their world.  (Yes, even if your character is full-on-Katniss-Everdeen, rebel in the world you’ve built, that character is still framing “rebellion” in relation to their environment).

2. The environment determines how deep your reader can swim in your book…

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

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• Surviving Failure and Rejection http://ow.ly/W20VS #writetip
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Happy writing and running, Kathy