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a demonstration of love by robert martin, 2024, oil on panel, 13.8 × 11 × 1.6 inches

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Writing Notes: Exploring your Setting

(Excerpted from the Young Novelist Workbook) ⚜ Basics: Setting

PART 1: Settings That Create Moods

Mood - the feeling of your novel; its emotional quality.

You can also think of the mood as how you want someone to feel while reading your novel. 

Examples: playful, serious, mysterious, tense, warm, dangerous, joyous

The setting of a novel - where and when the story takes place. As you know, most novels have more than one setting.

Usually, the author decides to have one large setting.

Example: Los Angeles in 1995

and then many smaller settings

Examples: The laundromat where the characters hang out on the weekends, or the classroom where they get in a fight

Settings do more than serve as a backdrop to the action in your novel. They can also create or enhance the mood of your novel. 

Example

If you wanted to create a creepy mood for a scene in your novel, you could start with something like: 

"A dead tree stood alone in a dark field. Its branches creaked in a cold wind, and in the distance, something howled.”

These images remind us of dark, disturbing things, and show the reader that the scene of the novel is ��creepy” without having to tell them directly.

Describing the Setting: A Sample Exercise

Describe the settings that would help create each of the moods listed below.

Try to write 2 or 3 sentences for each mood.

Include specific details about the sights, sounds, sensations (and maybe even smells) of the settings you choose:

Creepy, Joyous, Suspenseful/tense

Now make up 2-3 of your own moods and describe a setting that would go along with each one. 

The last step is to apply your new skills to your upcoming novel.

Think of a scene from each section of your novel.

Then, write or list details to describe a setting that will help create the right mood for each scene.

Example: You might set your climax on the edge of a crumbling cliff at sunset in the middle of a thunderstorm. 

A setting from your set-up:

A setting from your inciting incident:

A setting from your rising action:

A setting from your climax:

A setting from your falling action:

A setting from your resolution:

Now you have settings to enhance the different moods that will be in your novel.

PART 2: Settings That Reinforce Characters

Another advanced writing trick is to show things about your characters just by putting them in specific settings.

Examples: If you were writing about a mysterious person, you might place them in a dark mansion on a hill outside of town; if you were writing about a musician, you might place them in a messy room filled with instruments, speakers, and microphones.

Sample Exercise

For each of the following characters, try to come up with a setting that will reflect or reinforce what you imagine about them.

As you write, try to be as detailed as possible.

Don’t forget colors, sounds, and even smells.

Focus on where the character is.

The shy new kid in town:

A secret scientist superhero:

A character from your novel:

Another character from your novel:

Source ⚜ Writing Notes & References ⚜ On Setting

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Hurriedly posting this before I convince myself it's bad.

Anyway, the symbolism of Silco's eyes consumed me body and soul a few weeks ago and effects of that still linger, but I'm not smart enough to spin that out into an actual thought-out analysis, so instead you get this

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„Lietus“ "Rain" (2022)

watercolor, oil pastel, color pencil on paper

A3 format (29,7x42cm)

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Lightningbow by TinyBenz

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Paint-over of a gorgeous photograph of Alex at the Horne Section gig in Reading, done with digital oil pastels. He brings colour to a sometimes miserable world!

(And particularly special to me - he's wearing a 🤍 white Casio watch🤍 It's a bit scratched, but I'm just happy to see it.)

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Poppyseed Cauliflower and Fresh Corn Salad (Vegan)

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Sunburst by Roland Roucco

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The Light Shineth in Darkness and the Darkness Comprehendeth It Not

Artist: Evelyn de Morgan (English, 1855-1919)

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: De Morgan Collection, United Kingdom

Description:

The title comes from the Latin Gospel of St John, which refers to Christ as the light of men "the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it".

The angelic central figure of the painting sits amongst light and rainbows, looking down with an expression of pity and lifting her hand in a blessing. Inches away are three bowed figures, wearing shackles and hiding their faces from the light. The light shines upon them and touches them, but they do not look up to see the messenger. They are prisoners of their own fears and doubts.

The angelic spirit is so close to them, all they have to do is to lift their heads and they will see the light, but they cower away, one even covering her ears, so that she cannot hear the message. The painting suggests that if Humanity will but lift their heads and look, and uncover their ears and listen, they will see and hear the message of Christ amongst them.