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I don’t like boring words. I like scintillating words. Words that are skippy and delicious, or long with multiple syllables that roll like literary candy out of your mouth.
Words that make you think, words that sound like what they are, words that dance and tease and have hidden meanings. I do not like this word: Setting. Setting. So boring. Lifeless. No romance to it. No high jinks. No dynamite. And yet. As a writer, the setting is so important in a book. The setting can increase the tension and the conflict, transport the reader to paradise or to terror, and ratchet […]The post For Writers: Old Homes With Secrets, Car Living, and Scottish Men in Kilts. How To Create Compelling Settings In Your Books. appeared first on Ms. Career Girl.