The Importance of Setting a Scene Quickly

The key is to be really specific about those details that you put in so that it feels like there is a world around them. And also if you can use a detail more than once, it will feel like it is integrated as opposed to being a one off. The opening scene from the name of the wind which is in third person before we get to the frame story could be published as a short story on its own. Pat does that in 3,000 words. It's part of a 400,000 word book. But the fact that that can be done, the fact that George R. Martin, any one of his chapters, you can grab him. He's setting things so quickly