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prestige tv dramas be like: as the main characters grapple with the distressing events of the previous episode,

#tv #netflix #this is specifically about dead to me and breaking bad btw

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#space #eclipse

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#good post

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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

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#happy easter #happy easter xbox

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happy good friday

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Frozen Empire was dope as hell. Everything I ever could have wanted in a modern (non-Ramis/Reitman) Ghostbusters movie.

4.5/5

#ghostbusters #frozen empire #ghostbusters frozen empire #movies

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#good post

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Still can't believe you could just put NFTs in random accounts without their consent. Payment services ask to confirm if someone sends you money, and that's just money. Tech guys looked at a method of distributing CODE and thought "yeah, this doesn't need a 'do you accept' button"

#good post #YEP I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS EVER SINCE I FOUND OUT THAT FEATURE

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#good post

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If There’s Something Strange…

#ghostbusters

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife broke the streak of every Ghostbusters movie being released in Japan within a month of a Godzilla movie, but Frozen Empire, incredibly, will pick it back up (March 29 vs. April 26 for Godzilla x Kong).

#ghostbusters

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#ai artwork #ai art #halo #master chief #john 117

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#ghostbusters #ghostbusters 1984 #ray stantz #dan aykroyd #egon spengler #harold ramis #peter venkman #bill murray

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#ghostbusters #ai artwork #ai art #ai

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"hail the klingons, miles"

#star trek #spider-man #there is no way this isn't stolen from somewhere because this is #ai art #ai generated #spiderman #spider man #ai artwork

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#mission impossible #mission impossible dead reckoning part one #ethan hunt #twitter #good post