Here’s this week’s Author Aerobics challenge. Answers to the challenge will be posted on Friday. If you want to participate just post a link to your entry in the comments below and I’ll update this post with links to yours. Everyone’s welcome!
Setting Challenge
The setting is more than the location where your story takes place. Setting can be treated as a character or be an agent of conflict. It can mirror the state of mind of the characters. It can marry beautifully with the mood and tone of a story. It is the culture, the time period, the world that has shaped, or will shape, the characters that inhabit it.
Picking the right details can bring a setting to life, and give a place a sense of authenticity. You can find those details by exploring the world with your five senses. What would your characters smell, taste, see, touch, hear? What would they think is ordinary or extraordinary? What the characters chose to observe in the setting can also give you a sense of their personality.
Further Reading:
- The importance of setting by Tina Morgan
The Challenge: Write a story (1000 words or less) that is set in a place you have never been. This place can be real or imagined. The theme: “home”
This week’s participants!
- Peka’s Showdown by J.P. Cabit – A story that will make you shiver. Peka’s alone in the wilderness and there are wolves about.
- The Immigrant and the Gatekeeper by Aidan Fritz – Coon is being tested, but the new world will not listen to his plea’s.
- Where it all Began by Stephen A. Watkins, Jr. – Aran returns home to face the puppet master of his fate.
- Adrift by T.S. Bazelli – No one wants Kate. The only place she feels at home is adrift on the sea.
Thank you for this one. I will try and produce something non-fantastical. I want to do literary fiction and see whether I can’t do it too. Who knows, it may turn out I am Nobel prize worthy. *snorts*
I try, but something weird always comes out in the end. hehe
Hmmm…intersting, intersting…
Def. Will try. You’ve crafted a nice one this week, T.S.… 🙂
Thanks J. P. 🙂 I wonder who’ll be the quickest to the draw this week?
Not I… but we’ll see what the week brings 😉
Thanks for doing these every week!
🙂 I’ve been learning a lot (a much needed refresher) so I don’t mind at all. It’s also been a blast seeing what everyone’s been coming up with – all very different interpretations on the same themes.
Working as a community certainly adds an air of extra fun-ness to it.
Who will be the quickest indeed…*sinister laugh*
Yaaaaay! A winning streak! lol
“Peka’s Showdown” is finished.
You did it again! I haven’t even started mine yet!
Dont feel bad, it probably just means that you actually have a life…lol
I won’t even attempt to go the literary route. I noticed that I’d forgotten that it had to be a place you’ve never been. However, fortunately, I wrote within the guidelines: The Immigrant and the Gatekeeper.
I promise to try to write some non-epic-fantasy one of these days.
Here’s mine:
Where It All Began