Someone
in my writing group today was having difficulty moving her character
from one location to the next. Yes, we had a writing group on Black
Friday. We're writers and we like to spend Thanksgiving weekend
writing.
She
said she always gets stuck when transporting a character from one
place to another. After several suggestions, including “Don't just
write your characters walking around” and “Why not just put her
in the next place?” and “Don't worry about it now. Get through
your draft and come back to it later,” she informed us that she
felt she needed to write that walk from place to the next so she could emphasize the setting.
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| Setting must convey something. (Image courtesy of Mariluz Rodriguez on Flickr.) |