A Writer's Guide to Active Setting: How to Enhance Your Fiction with More Descriptive, Dynamic Settings: The Complete Guide to Empowering Your Story through Descriptive Setting - Softcover

Buckham, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1599639300 ISBN 13: 9781599639307

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Mary Buckham is the author of the USA Today bestselling Invisible Recruits series, which has been touted for its unique voice, high action, and rich emotion. A prolific writer, Mary also co-authors the young adult sci-fi/fantasy Red Moon series with New York Times bestselling author Dianna Love. Mary lives in Washington State with her husband and, when not crafting a new novel of her own, she travels the country researching settings and teaching other writers. She has spoken at the Writer’s Digest Novel Writing Conference and at many other high profile venues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1599639300
• ISBN 13: 9781599639307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256