Unheimlich Maneuvers

In the strong belief that one of the major steps a beginning writer has to take in order to progress is to learn to create a strong, effective settings, I have begun my creative writing class this semester with a discussion of setting, why it's important, and how to create one. For their first exercise, I've asked my students to write a two-page description of setting, or a one-page poem.



The exercise looks simple, but it's not. Apart from a few students who had recently taken a vacation...