Office Hours: Setting and Stream of Consciousness

What’s New

I’m an aunt again. YAY!

Rage Baking, #plaguebaking

On Writing and Productivity - Setting

Where does your story take place?

How does that setting influence your setting?

Some stories can be moved like Emma to Clueless

Some depend on the setting to move the story along

Researching settings when travel is hard or expensive

Google Earth/Streetview

Youtube

Nothing beats going there

Note details like smell and noise levels that you can’t get from a picture or Google streetview

Details that give your story authenticity

What I’m Writing

Book 4 - Gaining momentum coming into the Finale

Stream of Consciousness exercise from Creative Writer’s Notebook - Read aloud. You can see what I wrote here.

What I’m Reading

Non-fiction: Creative Writer’s Notebook

Fiction: Eve Silver - Dark Prince, Dark Desires

What I’m Watching

Outlander - thoughts on episode 511 “Journeycake” & David Berry leaving the show

Upload - The Good Place meets Black Mirror with a lot of heart

What I’m Crafting

Not much, more writing than crafting