Setting in Fiction

Settings in Smut

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Are settings in erotica important? Do you really need a sense of place as an integral part of what you’re writing? Will that necessarily add anything to the experience of [...]

Setting and Negative Space

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

I like stories with a strong sense of setting. I truly enjoy feeling the texture of a place well described, the grit under my fingers, the faded, chipped paint of [...]

Setting: Where Angels Fear to Tread

Friday, April 30th, 2010

“It was a shabby room, like a cheap, long-stay hotel room or a bed-sit in one of the poorer districts of Tokyo. A woven burnt orange curtain covered the window, [...]

Where in the world…

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Ah, location. Where do we put our characters? For some, I imagine the setting is a character in itself. For me, if you can figure it out, can you let [...]