Once, long ago, I heard a writer complain that writing descriptions of setting was “saying the boring part out loud.” Okay, obviously that person finds descriptions boring, probably as both a reader and a writer. If that’s you, my advice is to figure out what the minimum
Read more →Earlier this week, Minnesota Public Radio replayed an interview with novelist Richard Ford, and some of his comments (around 23 minutes into the broadcast) got me thinking about landscape. First off, landscape isn’t the same as setting. They overlap, of course, but one can tell an urban
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