Finding Your Sense of Place (The Writing Life Series), by Janni Lee Simner
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Use setting and description to bring your characters to life and increase the emotional impact of your stories! Setting is about much more than providing a few scene-setting details and moving on. Discover why the descriptions that seem to get in the way of your stories are actually the most powerful tools you have to bring characters to life and make readers care about their stories. Two decades ago, acclaimed novelist Janni Lee Simner took her writing to the next level and began selling her work when she realized that emotion and description are, ultimately, the same thing. In Finding Your Sense of Place she shares insights and techniques to help you: • Understand why different characters see the same places differently—even if they walk side by side • Craft descriptions that help readers connect with your characters on a deeper level • Make room for descriptive passages that won’t bog your story down • Select the most powerful scene-enhancing metaphors • Research your story’s setting—whether your story is set close to home or far away, in the present day or a thousand years ago • Choose the descriptive details that best convey that setting to readers
Finding Your Sense of Place (The Writing Life Series), by Janni Lee Simner- Amazon Sales Rank: #1237196 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-10
- Released on: 2015-06-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This Book for Writers is Found Treasure By Janet C. Carey Have you ever had your critique group say, “More description! More emotion?” Years ago acclaimed novelist Janni Lee Simner did, and it stumped her. How, she wondered, could you add paragraphs of setting description and character emotion without spoiling the story pace? I’ve run into the same problem as I’ve struggled to find the right balance my novels. Luckily Simner continued to grapple with the challenge until she had an epiphany. Description and character emotion are the same thing. Consider these descriptions of running through night rain:“Racing along the dark cliff, he broke through cold rain, the cutting shards tearing at his skin.”“Soft fingers of rain cooled her face as she raced along the dark cliff, the welcome water soaking her shirt.”Both describe a night run through the rain, yet each character experiences the storm in a completely different way according to his or her personality and mood.In Finding Your Sense of Place (The Writing Life Series), Simner shows how to choose the best metaphors and descriptive details to move your story forward. And she highlights many examples from fiction to bring the point home, giving writers a simple, elegant tool to approach the problem of place and character emotion. Here’s an example of her epiphany at work in her stunning YA novel Thief Eyes.~ The path led to a pond with an interpretive sign. I stopped to read it, stretching my calves and watching the raindrops ripple the water’s surface. The sign explained that in the Middle Ages, women convicted of things like lying and adultery had been drowned here. Nice ~These lines describing Haley’s jog along the gravel path in Iceland show both setting, and character emotion as Haley quests to find her missing mother in a foreign land.I loved reading Finding Your Sense of Place along with the bonus essay at the end detailing Simner’s in-depth setting research on her journey through Iceland for Thief Eyes. These forty pages could change your writing life. I know they’ll change mine.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great Exploration of Using Setting to Create Emotion By Katherine Cowley Learning how to write emotions was one of the hardest skills I had to learn as a writer, and something I’m still trying to improve on. (Sadly, statements like “Mary felt afraid” are actually terrible at showing Mary’s fear.)Finding Your Sense of Place by Janni Simner focuses specifically on how to use setting and description to create emotion. For Simner, setting should never be in a story simply to establish place. The details chosen for a setting and how they are used in connection with the characters are her favorite way to give a sense of the characters’ emotions.Simner also dives into how to research the authentic setting details you will need. Ideally you get to visit a place, as she did when writing a book set in Iceland, but if that is impossible she has other techniques.At the end there is a bonus essay, “Into the Fog: Icelandic Land and Lore,” which is beautiful to read, and makes me want to visit cool places for my stories.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Insightful By Jenn Quick read that gets to the heart of the matter. Descriptive passages and the emotional journey of your MC are not only linked, they're the same thing.
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