Boring Settings - Try These Simple Tricks to Make Them Memorable

Even a great story becomes forgettable if told in a boring, cliché setting. One of the secrets to maintaining reader interest is to make your settings memorable, exciting and fresh using these writing tips and tricks. Whether you're writing a novel, running a role-playing game, or world building for some other project, you need to make your settings unique, interesting and memorable.

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00:00 Introduction
01:08 You Need Memorable, Unique Settings
04:56 Inspiring Wonder - Go Big or Go Home
08:25 Invoke a Sense of Mystery
10:42 Make Your Setting Unique

[AshfaultAssassin]

I feel that if your settings are all super unique it draws from the fact that it’s a world. Sometimes you need that one cliche overused city dirty city to add to the grandeur of the super important settings. Though adding slight changes to personalize and add to your settings can really go a long way for even the smallest areas. your advice was amazing! Keep up the good work!

[PatrickMoore-vn]

I like to research something historical, then change it to fit my world. It gives it a realistic feel, but still makes it different from other books.

[robertrdbrooks]

ALSO: As in the bends (deep sea diving) divers have to go through a decompression process. *Similar when the miners return from mining they go through a decompression or purification process that restores their molecular, cellular or DNA to human/humanoid status.

[BadgerOfTheSea]

If it isn't a realist novel then don't have a realist setting