{"id":5746,"date":"2012-08-02T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2012-07-28T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T03:16:18","slug":"how-to-write-the-setting-of-a-story-finding-the-right-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/how-to-write-the-setting-of-a-story-finding-the-right-place\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write the Setting of a Story: Finding the Right Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ZeroGravityOutcasts\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5748\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Zero Gravity Outcasts by Kay Keppler\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the next installment of craft posts by monthly guest columnist, Kay Keppler. Today she\u2019ll share about setting and its important. You can contact Kay through the <strong>Writer\u2019s Fun Zone<\/strong> or at kaykeppler@yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or tell her she\u2019s off her rocker. (She let me say that!)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Your characters do not act in a vacuum. They live somewhere\u2014in a house, an ocean, a country, planet, period, zeitgeist, vacuum. Often they travel to somewhere else, or aspire to. They carry baggage\u2014metaphorical as well as literal. They have history and a future, cultural attitudes and speech patterns.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>These elements are your setting.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes setting is little more than decoration. Think of <em>Sleepless in Seattle<\/em>. The title is catchy, but did the movie have to take place in that city? Perhaps <em>Sleepless in Milwaukee<\/em> or <em>Sleepless in Boise<\/em> wouldn\u2019t pack the same romantic punch, but could that movie have happened someplace else without losing any of its charm? Could it have been, for example, <em>Sleepless in San Francisco<\/em>? Sure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Not just a pretty picture<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But setting can do a lot more than provide a pretty backdrop for your characters. It can enhance all your other story elements. For example, setting can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Expand or clarify themes<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Build story unity<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Tighten plot structure and intensify suspense<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Motivate and explain character<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Intensify reader involvement<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your setting can be anonymous, part of a specific past, contemporary location, or nameless future, but it is an intrinsic element to your story. It gives your characters their context and flavor\u2014and space to grow or fester, depending.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Think of <em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em>. Daniel Defoe set his forlorn, washed-up survivor on a tropical island. Could he have set him on some other island\u2014say, for example, Manhattan? Uh, no. Setting plays a crucial role in this story, as important a role as plot or character. In <em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em> and <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, setting is so important and so fully realized that the story couldn\u2019t possibly take place anywhere else. Setting is crucial to the short story, \u201cThe Lottery,\u201d too, although in a different way. Set in a nameless farming town, by the time readers reach the horrifying conclusion, they inevitably ask, \u201cWhere could this possibly happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Just the facts, ma\u2019am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you set your story in a real place, it needs to be as factual as you can make it. Readers will know if you let your character drive the wrong way down a one-way street. If you get that wrong, they won\u2019t forget\u2014and they won\u2019t trust you with all the stuff you do get right.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re writing fiction, after all. If we couldn\u2019t make stuff up, we\u2019d be calling it documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead. Invent all the towns, countries, people, galaxies you want. If you invent a Bedouin village in the Sahara, though, make sure that it\u2019s hot and dry there. Or that there\u2019s ice in Antarctica. Unless you\u2019re writing a dystopian novel about the future, and the deserts have turned green and the ice has melted.<\/p>\n<p>When you make stuff up, make your facts true to each other. Make your world consistent. If you don\u2019t, there will be hell to pay. Check out some of the Amazon reviews for Charlaine Harris\u2019s Sookie Stackhouse novels, and you\u2019ll see how readers will focus on the minutest details with the vision and intensity of a laser, complaining that in book umpty-ump, such-and-such a character could not possibly have known the other character two books later, because the membrane hadn\u2019t rippled yet. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Having your readers care that much about your world is a wonderful and terrifying experience. They won\u2019t hesitate for a second to call you out on the most trifling piece of minutia. And for these readers, if you don\u2019t get that membrane ripple just exactly right, well, the world is lost, the pleasure destroyed, the reader experience trashed.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not a pretty picture.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Kay-Keppler_31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5749\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Kay Keppler, Author\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Kay-Keppler_31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a>Kay Keppler (www.kaykeppler.com) is an author (<em>Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/em>, <em>Betting on Hope<\/em>) and editor of fiction and nonfiction (<em>Asylum Harbor, Pragmatic Guide to Sass<\/em>) who lives in northern California. Thanks to Orson Scott Card and his book <em>Characters &amp; Viewpoint<\/em> (Writer\u2019s Digest Books) for help with this column. Contact her here or at kaykeppler@yahoo.com to ask questions, suggest topics, or if you prefer, complain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your characters do not act in a vacuum. They live somewhere\u2014in a house, an ocean, a country, planet, period, zeitgeist, vacuum. Often they travel to somewhere else, or aspire to. They carry baggage\u2014metaphorical as well as literal. 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