Creative Writing – How to Set Your Story in Time and Place

I’m just starting to work on a new writing project, so the setting of the story is very much on my mind. As a huge fan of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, as well as classics like Wuthering Heights, I’m conscious of the powerful role that location can...
An Alphabet of Better Writing # S

An Alphabet of Better Writing # S

S is for…Setting The setting of a story can be crucial.  It’s certainly never incidental and you shouldn’t underestimate the importance of it.  Apparently writer Catherine Czerkawska discovered to her dismay that publishers wouldn’t take a...

Blending into the Background?

The importance given to the setting of a novel varies from writer to writer and from book to book. At its most limited it acts merely as a decorative frame to the action and has the same function as an exotic location in a film — it gets the reader’s...