About the Book:
Making viewers
and 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.
The
Urban Setting Thesaurus:
A
Writer's Guide to City Spaces is a writer's best
friend, helping you tailor each setting to your characters while
creating a realistic, textured world. Inside The
Urban Setting Thesaurus 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 writing urban
locations, along with common descriptive pitfalls that should be
avoided
Editors, authors, agents, and teachers agree that The
Urban Setting Thesaurus,
in its easy-to-navigate list format, is a convenient and helpful
writing tool that encourages novel writers, screenwriters, and
playwrights to make your descriptions work harder for your story. It
is required reading for several University-level Creative Writing
programs.
What people say:
"In
these brilliantly conceived, superbly organized and astonishingly
thorough volumes, Angela Ackerman
and Becca Puglisi
have created an invaluable resource for writers and storytellers.
Whether you are searching for new and unique ways to add and define
characters, or brainstorming methods for revealing those characters
without resorting to clichés, it is hard to imagine two more
powerful tools for adding depth and dimension to your screenplays,
novels or plays." — Michael Hauge, Hollywood
script consultant and story expert, author of Writing Screenplays
That Sell
About the Author:
Angela Ackerman and Becca
Puglisi are writing coaches and
co-authors of a number of descriptive thesauruses for writers. Angela
Ackerman lives in Calgary, Alberta, just a short drive from the
Canadian Rockies. She writes on the darker side of middle grade and
young adult. Becca Puglisi resides in New York. She is a young
adult fantasy and historical fiction writer.