Comments on: Setting–More than a Backdrop

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What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Great Writing | Writers In The Storm — Mon, 19 May 2014 21:16:35 +0000

[…] at your scenes. Can they do more than one task? For some ideas, read my blog Setting—More than Just a Backdrop. Setting can be used for more reasons than to give readers a weather report. Lehane proves my point […]

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By: Smita Luthra

Smita Luthra — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:56:28 +0000

Awesome!

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What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Great Writing « Kristen Lamb's Blog — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:46:50 +0000

By: Frankie Robertson

Frankie Robertson — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:49:27 +0000

Excellent and helpful observations! Setting can also function in hard science-fiction as a character: Poul Anderson’s FIRE TIME, C.J. Cherryh’s FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA, and more recently, Sara Creasy’s SONG OF SCARABAEUS.

By: stickynotestories

stickynotestories — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:23:14 +0000

This is one of the most helpful posts about setting I think I’ve ever read. I’ve never been much of a descriptor (my characters are often floating around in ether as far as my description is concerned), so it’s nice to have some helpful tips for including the setting without drowning everything else out (which I also have a tendency to do because I don’t know how to get that nice middle ground).

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By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:31:01 +0000

In reply to jasonamyers. Thanks for commenting, Jason. So you DO still read this blog :D. You writing about Christmas kind of scares me. That's like Quentin Tarantino or Stephen King writing about Christmas time. I say that in a "you're an awesome writer but very twisted and no heeding of the sacrosanct, dark observations" kind of way.

By: jasonamyers

jasonamyers — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:38:32 +0000

YES! That’s always one of my first things to pick before I start writing a story. Oddly enough, my favorite time to set a story is Christmas. Not sure why. I guess there’s so many easy ways to incorporate parts of Christmas into your story, with visuals, smells, and sounds that people are already familiar with…then you twist it. 😉

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:12:39 +0000

In reply to Nigel. That was the prison from "Shutter Island." We miss you! Hope you are having as much fun as is possible without us :D