Writing Lesson 8

Lesson 9 - Creating an Interesting Setting

In Lesson 8 you created a story map. In the story map you described your setting. In this lesson you will add additional details to make your setting interesting. Save this to add to Lesson 10.

A creative setting includes good use of imagery.

See	Feel	Smell	Taste	Hear
ancient castle with crumbling stones	bone chilling cold	musty smell of old		clicking armor
occasional drip of brown water from the ceiling	drafty winds blowing through hallways	burning acid smell of rotting flesh		creaking steps
tattered wall hangings with family crests				soft whispers of ghosts
flickering candles				howling spirits

Notice the words in the chart above "paint a picture". Words such as good, nice, etc. are NOT used on the chart.
Your chart may or may not include the taste category depending on what is taking place in your story.
What are some of the objects that you can see in the setting chart above?
What feeling do you get from reading the setting chart? Is the story going to be happy, spooky, angry, etc.?
Can you visualize the setting from some of the descriptive words on the chart?

Now fill in the chart below with extraordinary descriptive words that could tell the reader more about your setting. Remember that your setting will not only include the environment, but the time as well.

See	Feel	Smell	Taste	Hear