{"id":6592,"date":"2017-04-17T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:20:26","slug":"details-are-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/details-are-critical\/","title":{"rendered":"Details are critical"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When telling stories, details matter. You know that. Details, especially sensory details, enhance your story and allow your reader to:<\/p>\n

~ Fully enter the world you are creating<\/p>\n

~Suspend disbelief<\/p>\n

~ Connect emotionally with your characters<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you need to build your setting is in the world around you. Observe, observe, observe.\u201d \u2014 Elizabeth Nunez<\/a>, January 2017 Writer\u2019s Digest magazine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Nunez:<\/h3>\n

\u201c. . . like me, you probably wanted to be a writer because you found a lot of joy and pleasure by making up stories in your head. I love living in my imagination\u2014so much so that when I was younger, my siblings would say: \u2018Divide everything Elizabeth tells you in half. One half is true and the other is make-believe.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you relate to that? I bet you can!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe emotions and conflicts your characters experience can be made more vivid by the setting you choose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nunez gives examples of stories enhanced by setting:<\/p>\n

The Sea<\/em> by John Banville, which opens with \u201ca strange tide, a morning under a milky sky, a bay that swelled and swelled, rising to unheard-of heights. With that beginning, the mood is established for Banville\u2019s moving story about a man who loses his beloved wife to cancer and retraces his past to a seaside cottage, hoping for respite from his grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Middlemarch <\/em>by Georg Eliot contains \u201ca setting that contrasts with . . . character\u2019s emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the two lovers finally come together, there is not brilliant sunshine, but instead a burst of thunder and lightning. The effect is to convey to the reader the intensity of the passion between the two characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

How to set your story in a place you have never been?\u00a0 The obvious answer is to go there. If that isn\u2019t possible, research using tools that give detailed descriptions:\u00a0 Google Earth to see the site, Wikipedia to learn about weather, geographical, historical details. Access newspapers and magazine articles for information using microfiche records (available at libraries). \u00a0Interview people who lived there. Watch movies. Use your creative imagination to research as much as possible. But don\u2019t spend all your time researching. Remember to take time to write!<\/p>\n

Blog posts about using sensory detail:<\/p>\n

Imagery and sensory detail ala Adair Lara Prompt #277<\/a><\/p>\n

33 Ideas You Can Use for Sensory Starts Prompt<\/a><\/p>\n

Sensory Detail \u2013 Smell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When telling stories, details matter. You know that. Details, especially sensory details, enhance your story and allow your reader to: ~ Fully enter the world you are creating ~Suspend disbelief ~ Connect emotionally with your characters \u201cAll you need to build your setting is in the world around you. Observe, observe, observe.\u201d \u2014 Elizabeth Nunez, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1Ik","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}