I’ve enjoyed the authors contributions so far on our Pro-Blog 2025, and I look forward to hearing from more over the next few months. They provided such professional and timely content that I’d like to do a refresh once in awhile. Therefore, I will share some quotes from their past writing for your engagement.
Below are 2 quotes from Carol Harrison’s blog on “Settings”. I have 2 questions for you after you read her quotes.
“Your setting should draw your readers into your story and enable them to see, hear, smell, feel, taste, and even touch the scenes you lay out.”
Carol Harrison from Developing Our Settings
February 17th, 2025.
“Setting is important because it can draw the reader in or bore them. It also gives the characters . . . an environment in which they will change and grow.” Carol Harrison from How to Create Setting in Fiction February 3rd, 2025.
Think about what you’ve been reading and/or writing these days:
1. Do the sensory bits (what you see, hear, taste, smell, touch) in the setting engage you? What if they weren’t included?
2. Does the setting challenge the characters to grow? (Eg: A storm, a risky environment, etc.).
Thank you again to Carol Harrison for such pertinent advice!
Pam Mytroen