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Episode 73 - How to make settings work for our story, and how writers get to work each day.

Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

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The Garden in the Great Gatsby

Stephen King is a great storyteller but he's also a writer of beautiful prose. His settings can set the mood, listen to the difference in these settings as they set the mood. F Scott Fitzgerald used lush imagery and musical language in his description of a garden on Long Island in the Great Gatsby. Now compare this pleasant glittering setting of F Scott Fitzgerald with Edgar Allen Poe in the fall of the house of Usher.

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