Let’s talk setting. I mentioned in my notes yesterday about setting taking on a voice. It’s important for your book to have a setting that is alive, and contribures to the mood of the scene and book. But what if your setting, like Marshall University, doesn’t have a voice? What if it doesn’t need to function like a character, changing and growing. It still needs personality. In this scene from Reclaiming Nick, the Montana setting places a significant role in the story as a healer. Every character is, in some way, affected by the landscape. Maggy, one of the main characters, loves her life as a rancher. I wanted the land to act almost as an antagonist in the story, working against her. And to deepen its impact, I had […]
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