Comments on: Stir Up Your Setting–Finding a Happy Medium

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Flannery’s Favorites–Day 3 « KayeDacus.com — Thu, 12 May 2011 05:03:25 +0000

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Stir Up Your Setting Refresher « KayeDacus.com — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:01:47 +0000

[...] Stir Up Your Setting–Finding a Happy Medium “…I have a tendency to be a ‘too much setting’ writer. Almost everything I’ve written in the past twenty or so years has been set in my fictional Louisiana city. When I first started letting anyone (my mom and grandmother) read what I’d written, one of my mom’s comment was that she wished I would include more about the setting because she wasn’t getting a good feel for it. That’s when I started studying this element of craft. I started finding places where I could interject tidbits about the setting. And then, once people started commenting on how much they liked it, I wanted to put more in (you know, if they like it a little, they’ll like it a lot, right?). …” [...]

By: PatriciaW

PatriciaW — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:06:56 +0000

Kaye, this series was amazing. Now I’ve got to find time to go back over all the previous series, while keeping up with the new stuff.

I still find a wide breadth, in recent romance novels at least, as far as incorporating setting. I’m talking multi-published authors who give the room inventory as frequently as do newbies. Or, I’m left scratching my head trying to figure out where the story is happening (state, city, locale, part of house, etc.) So it’s kind of hard to get a good feel.