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Describe A Classroom: Photo Stimulus

Jonathan Pobre Maybe you’re in a classroom right now. If so, you can write about that. If not, you can imagine any sort of classroom you like. It may be one classroom in particular, or it may be an...

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Painting A Setting In Few Words

THE HOME OF A NEWBORN BABY The door opened on the scene of misery and confusion in which it seemed that all Beth’s days were passed. Wet laundry — diapers and smelly baby woollens — was hanging from...

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Describe a Setting: Photo Stimulus

pic by Stuck In Customs pic by anthony chammond pic by morBCN pic by Phillipp Klinger pic by Altus pic by Laura K Gibb These photos are from Flickr Creative Commons. Click on the photos to go to the...

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Describe A Kitchen: Photo Stimulus

Close your eyes and imagine a kitchen. Any kitchen. Now open. Which kitchen sprang first to mind? That’s your kitchen. You’ll be writing two or three paragraphs about that kitchen. pic by Amanda...

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Conveying Setting in Fiction

Use the Landscape. Always tell us where we are. And don’t just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep...

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On Dreamscapes

In my mother’s dream, she was at work but it wasn’t work; they were all sitting on a boat. She doesn’t work on a boat. She works in an office, mostly. “How do you know you were at work?” I asked,...

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A Cheap Trip Home

If you come from a big town in a big country (let’s say New York or London), you could spend your entire life reading nothing but books set in your own home town. I’m sure you don’t, but you could....

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