{"product_id":"9781599639307","title":"A Writer's Guide to Active Setting: How to Enhance Your Fiction with More Descriptive, Dynamic Settings","description":"Enhance Your Fiction with the Power of an Active Setting!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting is one of the most underutilized and misunderstood elements of the writing craft. And when writers do focus on setting, they often pull readers out of the narrative and jolt their attention from the action on the page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Writer's Guide to Active Setting\u003c\/i\u003e will show you how to create vivid, detailed settings that bring your story to life. You'll learn how to deepen character development, anchor readers to a specific time and place, reveal backstory without slowing things down, elevate action sequences, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon examples from authors writing across a variety of genres, Mary Buckham will illustrate exactly how the proper use of setting can dramatically improve your story. You'll learn what's effective about each passage and how you can use those techniques to make your story shine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Takes an all too often overlooked technique, and elevates it to a next-level game changer for powerful fiction.\" --\u003cb\u003eCathy Yardley\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRock Your Plot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful combination of fresh insights, practical examples, and how-to advice on the often overlooked but critical element of setting...written in a quick-to-read and easy-to-understand style, and packed with useful application exercises.\" --\u003cb\u003eKelly L. Stone\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThinking Write: The Secret to Freeing Your Creative Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you're a writer, then Mary Buckham's book is a must-have tool for your writer's toolkit. Creating settings that are rich and believable is not an easy task, but with this book, I found that each chapter gave me great tips that I could immediately implement in my manuscript.\" --\u003cb\u003eLaurie G. Adams\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFinding Atticus\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42900707082301,"sku":"9781599639307","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781599639307_p0.jpg?v=1771575088","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781599639307","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}