The Where

Part of writing a story of any kind, is getting the setting details just right.

Most people, when they hear the word “setting” think place…something you see. But in the world of literature, setting is what you see, smell, hear, taste, feel. When you give a reader all of those things, they can truly be immersed in your fictional world.

I figured it might a fun writing exercise to look at a picture and try to describe it with all five senses (as you would in a book). It doesn’t matter if you’ve b...