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How do I bring up a setting in a story? I find it kind of difficult somehow 😐 Btw I love your blog, it really helps me.

Incorporating Setting into a Story

The setting is the place where your story unfolds, but its importance to the overall story can vary. Some settings can be thought of as so important they’re almost a character in the story. Other settings just serve as background detail, having limited or superficial impact on the story. But regardless of which kind of setting you have, it’s important to work it into the story so that your reader is always aware of it, even if only vaguely. But how do you do that?

1) Flesh out your setting before you write.

Even if you’re not a planner, you should have some idea of what your setting will be and what it’s like before you start writing. One thing that can help a lot is to choose some inspiration for your setting. If you’re writing about a fictional town, for example, you might choose a real town (or a few) to serve as inspiration for your setting. Having a real place to pull ideas from can help the setting form more fully in your imagination. Even if you’re writing a fantasy setting, there are many real life places that can serve as inspiration, plus lots of fictional ones as well.

2) Do a scene list with setting information.

It’s much easier to think about setting when you know exactly where each of your scenes will take place. When you write out a scene list, you can jot down a few notes about the setting in that scene. Think about things like where it is, what time it’s taking place, and ways in which your characters might interact with the setting during the scene.

3) Imagine yourself in the scene.

One of the easiest ways to think about setting when you write a scene is to imagine yourself in your character’s shoes. What elements of the setting can they see during the scene? What can they hear or smell? What do they touch or interact with? For every part of the scene you write, consider these questions and incorporate the details into the scene.

4) Use setting to establish and conclude a scene.

Next time you’re watching a TV show, pay close attention and you’ll notice when a new scene begins (either after a scene ends or a commercial break ends), you’ll often see an exterior shot of the house, building, restaurant, park, school, etc. This is called an “establishing shot” and it’s used to establish where the scene is taking place. It also lets the viewer know things like time of day (which might tell them if time has passed since the last scene), weather, and other important details. You can do something similar in your story by establishing the scene with information about the setting, time of day, weather, and any other details that may be relevant to the story. You don’t need to talk about these things to establish every scene, but they’re often relevant or helpful. Take a few books off your bookshelf and flip through a few chapters. See if you can identify the paragraphs that establish setting. See if you can find similar paragraphs that conclude a chapter.

5) Read, read, read.

As always, the best way to learn how to write is to make sure you’re reading a lot, and to make sure you’re paying attention to the things you want to learn. If you want to learn how to weave setting details into your story, pay attention to how your favorite authors do it in their books. :)

So guys, my friend @wolfcore227 made two stories. She also does stuff that makes things harder to figure out. She told me that she told the name of the anonymous person in one conversation in our gc. I can’t find it tho. Its so hard to make this damn theory.

Hi! I have a really hard time adding descriptions to my story and seem to only want to write dialog. Is there anyway to work around this?

Balancing Dialogue with Action and Narrative

While description is an important part of writing dialogue, when you say dialogue is all you want to write, what’s missing from your story isn’t description specifically, but action and narrative.  A good scene should have a balance between dialogue, action, and narrative. But what are they?

Action - contrary to what you might think, “action” doesn’t have to mean a car chase or an epic battle. “Action” just means something is happening–things are in motion. An action scene can be your protagonist at her job as a store clerk, stocking the soup aisle when a couple of friends come in to tell her about a party, or it could be your protagonist riding the bus to school. And yes, it can be a car chase or a battle, but it doesn’t have to be. Every scene should include some action.

Narrative - narrative is probably what you mean when you say your story is lacking “descriptions.” Narrative is when things are being explained by the narrator. This can be the narrator explaining back story, character thoughts or feelings, something that happened off-the-page, plot or setting elements–really anything that is being explained rather than playing out as an action or dialogue sequence. Every scene should include some narrative.

Dialogue - dialogue is obviously a conversation between two or more characters, but dialogue should also include description. In other words, you don’t want a dialogue sequence that looks like a tennis match of spoken words. You need to add action and description to make it more interesting. So, instead of:

“Do you know what time it is?”

“No, want me to check?”

“Sure, I guess.”

“Okay, it’s ten o’clock.”

(Which is very boring…) You would do this:

Sam sauntered into the room. “Do you know what time it is?”

“No,” Sarah said, glancing up from her needlework. “Want me to check?”

The truth of the matter was, Sam wasn’t sure he wanted Sarah to check the time. Was it better for him not to know? Was it true that a watched pot never boils? Letting out a frustrated groan, he shuffled to the window and parted the velvet curtains to peer out. Snow was still falling in apocalyptic fashion. The carriage would never make it through. They should be here by now!

“Sure, I guess. I mean, yes. Please check the time,” Sam said at last.

“Okay.” Sarah fished around in the deep pocket of her skirt until she found her pocket watch, which she pulled out by the chain. “It’s ten o’clock.”

Now that was a lot more interesting, wasn’t it? Plus it tells us a lot more than just back and forth dialogue. Here’s how all the things we discussed come into play:

Sam sauntered into the room. (action and description) “Do you know what time it is?”

“No,” Sarah said, glancing up from her needlework. (description) “Want me to check?”

The truth of the matter was, Sam wasn’t sure he wanted Sarah to check the time. Was it better for him not to know? Was it true that a watched pot never boils? Letting out a frustrated groan, he shuffled to the window and parted the velvet curtains to peer out. Snow was still falling in apocalyptic fashion. The carriage would never make it through. They should be here by now! (narrative)

“Sure, I guess. I mean, yes. Please check the time,” Sam said at last.

“Okay.” Sarah fished around in the deep pocket of her skirt until she found her pocket watch, which she pulled out by the chain.(action and description) “It’s ten o’clock.”

So, now that you know what all of these things are, how do you add them in? Well, there’s no special method. You just do it. It takes practice to do it well, but you’ll get there. For now, just try it. When you find yourself writing “tennis match” dialogue, figure out where you can add a little action, narrative, and description to flesh things out. And when you’re writing a scene, make sure you include narrative to explain what’s happening, action to move the story forward, and description to tell the reader about the characters and settings. :)

My senior quote

“FLAIR BITCHIN IN THE HOUSE”

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Loki: And then he went into the odinsleep.

Y/n:......

Loki: Are you oka-

Y/n: When odin takes a poop is it called odinshit?

Thor: *looks at y/n, terrified*

Loki and Thor: Oh my god she's right.

So I was just wandering around your blog and I was wondering. Remember the picture you posted of a page of a book on norse mythology? What book is it?

Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology!!

Made the doki doki's with the pastel girl app! I know this has been done before but I just wanted to make my own version.

📘📗📗🖤🖤🖤 RIP Natsuki

What do you guys think??

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So, yeah. Srry for being late, lots of exams lately; but I can finally post a song here. Now its the time for D̴̛̖̐o̶͉̘̟͆k̴̺͗̐i̸̠̲̓̔̈́ ̸̇́ͅD̵̠̪̏̑̓õ̶̡̪k̶̼̲͕̑̎̕ȋ̴̱̈́ ̶̩̯̓̓L̴͓̺̬̃I̶̯̥̮͝t̸̪͕̯̂ë̸͇́r̵̟̋́a̸̡͉͛t̶̨̖͗͑̾u̴͎̤̐͌̅ȑ̸̬e̶̻̫̮͋̾ ̸̖͙̉͂̈́C̷͇̘̐͜͝l̶̙̅̈́̔ͅủ̶͚̗̂b̶͓͍̀̚

I don’t know why, but every time I try to write the name, it glitches out.

AAAAAAAAAAnyway, here goes nothing.

Edit: Since this post arrived at 300 likes, which is a milestone for me, I’ve considered to Thank you for all of this support. I really appreciate it and it keeps me cheered up to post more. To thank you, I’ve improved my cover. Hope you love it! <3

This user thinks that the R*ssos royally fucked up Loki’s character

This user knows that Loki is not dead

I made this, with the same pic. I made it in picsart. The scott cawthon logo and loki helmet isnt mine but it was open for free use on picsart. If u want to use it pls ask me, pm me or tag me. If u want a wallpaper made, tell me all the details and ask me or pm me.

Please pray for us here in Greece.

Three different places near Athens were destroyed by massive forest fires.

• 180+ people are severely injured and burnt.

• 50 people and counting were found dead on the streets, in their cars or houses, including families that were found hugging each other.

• 100+ are missing.

This is a national tragedy. So many were lost because of ARROGANT PEOPLE.

Spreading awareness. There’s no need for such things to happen, so many lives were destroyed for no reason.