Enhance Your Fiction with the Power of an Active Setting!
Setting is one of the most underutilized and misunderstood elements of
the writing craft. And when writers do focus on setting, they often pull
readers out of the narrative and jolt their attention from the action on
the page.
A Writer's Guide to Active Setting will show you how to create vivid,
detailed settings that bring your story to life. You'll learn how to
deepen character development, anchor readers to a specific time and
place, reveal backstory without slowing things down, elevate action
sequences, and more.
Drawing upon examples from authors writing across a variety of genres,
Mary Buckham will illustrate exactly how the proper use of setting can
dramatically improve your story. You'll learn what's effective about
each passage and how you can use those techniques to make your story
shine.
"Takes an all too often overlooked technique, and elevates it to a
next-level game changer for powerful fiction." --Cathy Yardley,
author of Rock Your Plot
"A powerful combination of fresh insights, practical examples, and
how-to advice on the often overlooked but critical element of
setting...written in a quick-to-read and easy-to-understand style, and
packed with useful application exercises." --Kelly L. Stone, author
of Thinking Write: The Secret to Freeing Your Creative Mind
"If you're a writer, then Mary Buckham's book is a must-have tool for
your writer's toolkit. Creating settings that are rich and believable is
not an easy task, but with this book, I found that each chapter gave me
great tips that I could immediately implement in my manuscript."
--Laurie G. Adams, author of Finding Atticus
