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
$38.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2016
Summary
Enhance Your Fiction with the Power of an Active Setting! Setting is one of the most underutilised 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. 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. When not crafting a new novel of her own, Mary travels the country researching settings and teaching other writers. REVIEWS: “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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781599639307 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1599639300 |
| Author: | M.E. Buckham |
| Publisher: | Writer's Digest Books |
| Imprint: | Writer's Digest Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2016 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“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: How to Enhance Your Fiction with More Descriptive, Dynamic Settings by Mary Buckham (author of the USA Today bestselling Invisible Recruits series) 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, as well as her own years of experience and expertise, 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. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, A Writer’s Guide to Active Setting is very highly recommended for community library Writing/Publishing reference collections, and a ‘must read’ instructional guide for all aspiring novelists and short story authors.” –Midwest Book Review
About The Author
M.E. Buckham
Mary Buckham (Port Townsend, WA) is an award-winning romantic-suspense author who, before becoming published in book-length fiction was a freelance article writer, selling hundreds of articles to local, regional, and national publications. In addition, sheas been an editor of a regional magazine. Mary is a sought-after speaker and writing craft teacher for both online and in live presentations throughout the United States and Canada. for more on Mary.
Dianna Love (Peachtree City, Georgia) is a New York Times best selling author who wrote her first novel, Worth Eve
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