7 Writing Exercises to Improve Your Story's Setting

Even though setting is the backdrop of a story, it's not something to be ignored. Effective use of setting can make a story more immersive, atmospheric, and heighten elements of plot and character. If you want to improve your setting development and description skills, try these writing exercises!

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - The Mood Swamp
1:25 - Research
2:05 - The Senses
2:45 - Varying Viewpoints
3:18 - Character Through Setting
3:55 - Draw a Map
4:50 - Mining for Detail

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[maltesers]

I would actually pay you for a fiction writing course full of lessons and exercises.

Your youtube videos are awsome for writing tips and information, but it's like what do I focus on first? Then what do I progress it to?

A stuctured programme starting from the pure basics, progressing to more advanced things would be epic.

[mayamohan]

I am from India and I have enjoyed your videos immensely .Learnt a lot.A beginner!Thank you.

[jadaw]

Perfect timing! I'm developing my story's setting.

[henrydaunt]

First of all I want to say that you are very beautiful. Secondly I want to say that your videos had helped me a lot in my book publishing journey.
Thankyou

[nildam.bonilla]

500 words of description screams Tolkien level of description to me, which means almost 2 pages of me writing by hand on my notebook... that's a lot😮

[u_t_d_s_h-_a]

Perfectly OK novels can be written without much emphasis on setting, eg: literary novels ---in which case readers' imagination is put to greater challenges.

[killzone]

Unfortunately for me I'm struggling to write anything