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Enriching Your Plot with Setting with Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Welcome!
Meet Your Tutor (1:23)
Part One: Why Are We Here?
Introduction
Types of Setting
Exercise: Five Settings
Showing Your Setting
The Forest and the Trees
Detailed Description: An Example
Quote
Exercise: Detail
Avoiding the Boring Stuff
Exercise: Changing the Object
Ways of Looking at Place
Places as Aspirations
Places as Baggage
Places as Belonging
Places as Pressure Cookers
Exercise: Thinking about Setting
Summary
Part Two: Escapism
Introduction
Exercise: Dropping in the Deep End
Outsiders and Insiders
Why Tell An Outsider Story?
Things to Consider
Exercise: An Insider Perspective
Why Tell An Insider Story?
Things to Consider
Research, Research, Research
Exercise: Researching a Setting
How Much Research Is Enough?
To Fictionalise or Not to Fictionalise?
Case Studies: Fictionalising a Real Place
Exercise: Fictionalising a Place You Know
Summary
Part Three: There's No Place Like Home
Introduction
Exercise: Writing Home
The Cringe Factor
Too Close to Home
Ways of Looking at Home
Homecomings
Exercise: Coming Home
Invasions
Exercise: Invasion
Prisons
Exercise: Prison
Outsiders Looking In
Exercise: Outsiders Looking In
Summary
Bon Voyage! (1:26)
Some Further Reading
Feedback
Thank you
Case Studies: Fictionalising a Real Place
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