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Setting as Character--How to Create Emotion from the Setting in Your Book

Setting as Character--How to Create Emotion from the Setting in Your Book

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Mary Carroll Moore
May 03, 2019
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Rita is working on a MG (middle grade) novel. She wrote me this week with a good question about how much to use setting in her book.  What's not enough, what's too much? And most important of all, does a story's setting need to be as developed as its characters?

Her story is set on Mars, a hostile environment ("Think adventure movie," she says, "with ava…

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