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21 February 2013

Amy Kathleen Ryan (on Writing Teen Novels)

Setting can include the history of a place, the people, the culture, the food, the dancing, the music, the assumptions of the characters, their religion, the mood, that intangible atmosphere… the list goes on. Setting is where and when and who and what and how. Setting is how it smells and sounds and feels, what it looks and tastes like. Setting is what makes the hairs rise on the back of your neck, and, if the writer does it right, setting is what transports the reader away from his/her bench in the school cafeteria to a world they want to stay in for a while.
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Author of teen novels, Amy Kathleen Ryan, at http://writingteennovels.com/2013/02/06/setting-in-teen-novels-by-amy-kathleen-ryan.

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