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When to describe setting

Anonymous asked you:

When describing setting, should i start with a character, go to setting, then setting in relation to character (i.e. Kayla lived in an old house. It had flower beds in the back and it had other stuff DETAIL DETAIL DETAIL. she was sitting on the front porch one day…) or trickle in details throughout the passage? (I.e. Kayla sat on the front porch one day reading her newspapers. She decided to water the flowers growing in the backyard, then she walked to the front and …)

The trick I’ve been using for description is “dominant impression”. Simply put, describe the setting as your character interacts with it, and “interact” can mean setting a book down on a nightstand or looking out across the field or feeling the weather as she walks.

“Dominant impression” also means alluding to a character’s investment in their surroundings. She eases down a thrice-read book on a mahogany nightstand that was once her great grandmother’s, and she’s very careful with anything she braves setting atop the scraped lacquer. This not only adds character to the scene, but also adds new dimension to your character.

So, in short, I’d personally advise as you said: trickling details. Readers are more likely to remember description if there’s significance to it (even if it’s just the fact that the top stair of the porch has creaked since she was a toddler in a diaper, or whatever the case may be).

Here’s a ton of other links that expand a whole lot on the above and might help you with how and when to describe setting:

Varying sentences

Victoria’s Vitamins #1

Victoria’s Vitamins #2

5 tips on describing your setting

Making your setting work harder

The story of exposition

Breaking writing habits

Descriptive writing and the five senses

Turn cliches into brilliant description

Our writing exercise on setting

Hope this helps!

#writing tips #writing advice #writing #setting #saving this for when im struggling

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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tangerine snail 🍊

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#writing #writers on tumblr #writing memes #art meme #artists on tumblr

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#writing memes #writers on tumblr #writers

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WDYM????

My stardew valley obsession has resurfaced since the new update came out. I remember Evelyn once told me she liked collecting seashells and then proceeded to hate the seashell I gave her like???? 💀

#art #digital art #artists on tumblr #illustration #stardew valley #sdv fanart #sdv 1.6 #stardew fanart

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Simz on Instagram

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the dick must be insane

#stardew valley 1.6 spoilers #stardew #stardew valley #stardew valley 1.6

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not to be stardewposting again but

Elliott can't fucking say this shit when I'm dressed like THIS

What made him see me leave the house and kiss him looking like THIS

WITH THE JINGLING BOOTS. and decided "Yes, his courting plumage is immaculate. I must bed him immediately."

#sdv #sdv elliott #stardew valley #sdv elliot x farmer

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[Stardew Valley] felt compelled to draw some ponies..

#stardew valley

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“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

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AO3 Comments are SO SO SOOOOOOO important because you can only leave Kudos ONCE. You add to the hit count ONCE (every 24 hours).

So whenever someone updates their fic, the ONLY way an author knows who their regular readers are is if they comment on each chapter. And we WANT to know who's still reading.

Believe it or not, some of us think about the name that pops up constantly in the comments and go "omg I can't wait to see what they think of THIS SPECIFIC SCENE cuz I KNOW they'll say something about it!!!"

#ao3 #ao3 community #ao3 comments #fanfic writer

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I forgot how lonely it is to write original fiction.

Where are the kudos? The subscriptions? The comments? The people cheerleading me chapter to chapter? Where are the kind words and compliments and reassurances that what I'm writing isn't complete crap? Where are the unhinged emojis? The asks on Tumblr? Where are my mutuals in my dms apologizing for not reading the latest chapter right away (side note, you know you don't have to apologize at all, right??). Where is the fanart? Where are the recs?

Where is my motivation to keep going?

It's something I've been thinking about a lot, actually, lately. How the experience of writing fanfic is so unique. How you already have an audience, willing and waiting and captive. And that's really it, isn't it? You have an audience. It's almost performative, writing fanfic. It's being on a stage, a one-person show (or two, if you do it with a friend); it's getting live reactions to your performance, it's feeding off the energy of the crowd and informing it back in a feedback loop; it's improvised, sometimes, in almost-real-time. It's building something that you couldn't have built by yourself. A thing that takes on a life of its own.

It's an experience you can't get writing original fiction, and, honestly, not having it is making it hard to write something original at all.

#fanfic #writing

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Panthera Arven on Instagram

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Three modes of feelings toward characters as the writer is writing them:

These fuckers (affectionate)

These fuckers (annoyed)

These fuckers (literal)

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