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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 Crystal Cave

The setting has added mortal danger to the story. Another thing that setting can do is to add a mystery to the story a puzzle here's an example of that from mary stuart's the crystal cave uh early in the novel it begins then then i went into the cage and  it was like being locked inside a cage. The full west wind strengthened while for one holy outrageous day when the entire surface of the sea mountainous waves valleys at all was a flying mixture of air and fragmented water I'm sure glad i'm not on that boat in real life but i'm really glad to be on it in fiction.

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