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Create a Great Setting for a Story: A Small, Knowable Place
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Every great story contains a bunch of basic elements–complex characaters who offer glimpses into the variety of human motivation, action that reveals motivation and conflict, details that offer glimpses that most readers would miss, and more. To many, the setting offers the container of characters and action. To others, the setting is like an all-present “extra,”…
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The Power of Artifacts in Storytelling: Put Something in Your Character’s Hands
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When you watch a great period television show or movie, it’s always fun to see the artifacts that help to revive bygone periods in history. Every prop reveals something about the characters, their community and culture. Artifacts being us into a particular time and place. The objects say something about the values of the characters. Holding a…