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How to Create an Authentic Setting from a Place You’ve Never Been
What do a cup of Wawa coffee, a bottle of Yuengling lager, and a bag of Herr’s potato chips have in common? They are a few of the many of subtle details that bring the fictional Philadelphia suburb of...
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Beyond Description: Story-Relevant Aspects of Setting
When we think of setting, the first thing that comes to mind is likely to be a panoramic view of a place—a village, forest, castle, planet. When people ask me about my WIP, I tell them that it’s “set”...
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The Places You’ll Go: Writing Setting or Setting Goals
Please welcome Lynne Reeves Griffin back to Writer Unboxed today! Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and non-fiction....
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Plumb the Emotional Depth of Your Setting
photo adapted / Horia Varlan Many writers say that while they’re drafting, they see their story unspool in their minds like a movie. Unless that film is scratch-n-sniff, this suggests the setting will...
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Meeting the Reader’s French Expectations (Or Not)!
By Flickr’s Moyan Brenn Please welcome Adria J. Cimino as our guest today. Adria is the author of four novels including Amazon best-seller Paris, Rue des Martyrs and her latest release, A Perfumer’s...
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The Editor’s Clinic: Promise Fresh Perspective
Kathryn’s post today is part of the “All the King’s Editors” series, in which WU contributors will edit manuscript pages submitted by members of the larger WU community and discuss the proposed...
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First Look: WU UnConference Session Descriptions
The Writer Unboxed UnConference If you’ve been eager to learn more about the sessions and workshops we’ll have at this year’s Writer Unboxed UnConference (in Salem, MA, 11/4-11/8), this is the post for...
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Fiction in the Time of Plague
Six months into the worst pandemic in a century, we’ve passed five million cases with more than 170,000 dead, more than 30 million out of work, and the economy collapsing faster than it did during the...
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Staging the Scene
Image by Thomas H. from Pixabay I have always been a visual writer. When formulating a scene, I have to envision each moment in exacting detail. As such, a good deal of my editing process involves...
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Root Down and Rise Up
Like all your Writer Unboxed columnists this week, I’m writing this in advance of the inauguration, a time of stress and worry and hopefulness and joy. We don’t know what will happen. And not knowing,...
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