Description & Setting (Write Great Fiction)

by Ron Rozelle

Overview

Build a Believable World

How essential is setting to a story? How much description is too much? In what ways do details and setting tie into plot and character development? How can you use setting and description to add depth to your story?

You can find all the answers you need in Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting by author and instructor Ron Rozelle. This nuts-and-bolts guide - complete with practical exercises at the end of each chapter - gives you all the tips and techniques you need to:

 • Establish a realistic sense of time and place
 • Use description and setting to drive your story
 • Craft effective description and setting for different genres
 • Skillfully master showing vs. telling


With dozens of excerpts from some of today's most popular writers, Write Great Fiction: Description & Setting gives you all the information you need to create a sharp and believable world of people, places, events, and actions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582973272
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Series:	Write Great Fiction
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	The Importance of Description and Setting	1
Chapter 2	Learning to Pay Attention	18
Chapter 3	Using All the Tools in Your Kit	37
Chapter 4	Showing, Telling, and Combining the Two	62
Chapter 5	Sensory Description	75
Chapter 6	Description of Characters	100
Chapter 7	Time and Place	120
Chapter 8	Description and Setting in Specialized Fiction	137
Chapter 9	Using Description and Setting to Drive the Story	152
Chapter 10	Working the Magic	163
Chapter 11	Too Little, Too Much	176
Chapter 12	Description and Setting in the Writing Process	187
Appendix	Point by Point-A Quick and Easy Reference to Material Covered	196
	Index	209