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Hamilton on setting: nine questions for checking the setting of your own story
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For fiction and screen writers who want to test whether a story's setting does real work. It reads Chapter VI of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book Materials and Methods of Fiction and turns it into nine questions. The questions are the curator's reading, untested, and the book is over a century old.
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Hamilton on setting: nine questions for checking the setting of your own story
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For fiction and screen writers who want to test whether a story's setting does real work. It reads Chapter VI of Clayton Hamilton's 1908 book Materials and Methods of Fiction and turns it into nine questions. The questions are the curator's reading, untested, and the book is over a century old.
Useful starting points
- Setting can match a character's mood or contrast with it; the chapter says contrast is often the more useful way to make a point.
- Atmosphere comes from a strict selection of details sharing one quality, not from piling up many details.
- A quick test: if a description could be lifted out without changing the story, it may be decoration rather than part of what happens.
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