Question 828: Faking Your Setting
Art asks: “What should a writer look out for when writing a real world location that they haven’t lived in? Resources Mentioned: One Shot by Lee Childs
Art asks: “What should a writer look out for when writing a real world location that they haven’t lived in? Resources Mentioned: One Shot by Lee Childs
Ian asks: “I’m struggling to find current examples of rich setting. Have authors stopped using setting, or am I not looking in the right place?” Resources Mentioned The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block Choke by Chuck Paulinuk Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of …
Subscribe Here! Vega asks: “What is transparent worldbuilding, and how does it work?” Resources mentioned: Dune by Frank Herbert The Menace From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein Stories From The Twilight Zone by Rod Serling One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: “If an author is writing in the present, is it worth making speculative extrapolations to extend the shelf life?” Movies referenced: Top Gun
Subscribe Here! JR asks: “How can I enrich my descriptions even though I’m colorblind?” Books mentioned: Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
Subscribe Here! Sgt Mike asks: How do you make the setting its own character? How do you avoid spoon-feeding setting to the audience?
Subscribe Here! Sgt Mike asks: How do you write a convincing setting when it’s somewhere you’ve never been?