- Level
- Mixed
- Basic and Premium Members Prices
- Premium Member $30 & Basic Members $40
- Category
- Description/Setting
- Editing
Setting and description are vital elements of any story. Without them, characters are nothing more than talking heads, drifting through a sad, sad world. Nobody wants to read about a sad, sad world. Well, some do, but let us never speak of them again.
Alas, incorporating the details of the scene can be tricky—too much, and you slow the pace and bore the reader; too little, and you leave the scene feeling empty and the characters untethered. In this intensive three-week class, we’ll go over how to present a scene, how to keep the characters from floating through the story, how to use the description to further story elements, and how to turn the setting into a character all its own.
Alas, incorporating the details of the scene can be tricky—too much, and you slow the pace and bore the reader; too little, and you leave the scene feeling empty and the characters untethered. In this intensive three-week class, we’ll go over how to present a scene, how to keep the characters from floating through the story, how to use the description to further story elements, and how to turn the setting into a character all its own.
- Syllabus
- Lessons
- Setting the Scene
- Tethering
- Setting Doesn’t Do Dialogue...Much
- Description to Build Characters
- Worldbuilding
- Description to Build Tension
