How about you? Are you good at settings or not? See the thing is, I usually do my research while writing the book. I am known to write my first draft real fast and write things like /insert description of a super awesome lavish oriental room here/
Then, oh joy, I get to fix during revisions. Which is what I am doing right now– revisions, aka fixing stuff.
I do fear writing settings, I have no idea why. If you are like me,you can try a trick I got from reading Stephen King ON WRITING. He tells us to imagine the actual place and pick three things in it, then write those in your paragraph. Sometimes when I can’t imagine anything, I’ll search the web and look at pictures of things, like a club, or a beach, or an old castle. Or sometimes I look at the setting lists they have on the Bookshelf Muse emotion thesaurus for writing website.
This morning was a little hard because I was working on the setting of a market in an alternative small desert town in Morocco during Victorian times. I’m not sure if I can find any picture for that.
I was trying to recall what my dad had told me about Morocco. He worked there a lot for his work as a paleontologist. He had a pretty poetic vision of the place.
Anyhow, I may try to search for some more pictures and see what I can come up with. Or maybe watch an old Indiana Jones movie, that always work to.
How do your solve your settings problems?
Much love,
M-C xoxox
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