The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces

· Writers Helping Writers Book 5 · JADD Publishing
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Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing the cast, providing opportunities for deep point of view, and revealing significant backstory. 


Inside this volume, you will find: 


• A list of the sights, smells, tastes, textures, and sounds for over 120 urban settings

• Possible sources of conflict for each location to help you brainstorm ways to naturally complicate matters for your characters

• Advice on how to make every piece of description count so you can maintain the right pace and keep readers engaged

• Tips on utilizing the five senses to encourage readers to more fully experience each moment by triggering their own emotional memories

• Information on how to use the setting to characterize a story’s cast through personalization and emotional values while using emotional triggers to steer their decisions 

• A review of specific challenges that arise when choosing an urban location, along with common descriptive pitfalls that should be avoided


The Urban Setting Thesaurus helps you tailor each setting to your characters while creating a realistic, textured world your readers will long to return to, even after the book closes. 

Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every loc...

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Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and other resources for writers. Her books have sold over 1.4 million copies and are available in multiple languages, are sourced by universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, editors, and psychologists around the world. She is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge with others through her Writers Helping Writers® blog and via One Stop For Writers®—a powerhouse online resource for authors that's home to the Character Builder and Storyteller's Roadmap tools. You can find her online on Facebook and Twitter.

Angela Ackerman is a story coach, international speaker, and co-author of the bestselling book, The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, and its many sequels. Available in nine languages, her guides are sourced by universities, recommended by agents and editors, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, and psychologists around the world. To date, this series has sold 1.4 million copies.

Angela is also the co-founder of the popular site Writers Helping Writers®, as well as One Stop for Writers®, a portal to game-changing tools and resources that enable writers to craft powerful fiction. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and other resources for writers. Her books have sold over 1.4 million copies and are available in multiple languages, are sourced by universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, ed...

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