Review: Want a breakthrough in your writing?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2013
Let's be honest here, as a reader have you skipped over descriptions of settings because the passages seemed like they belong to another story or they were simply boring.  But, most of all they took you out of the story.  Those reasons could spell disaster for a writer and their story.Are you writing settings merely to place your characters for your readers?  I admit I have.  But, I found a remedy with Mary Buckham's Active Settings Book 1 and 2.  Mary is spot on with her techniques and guides you with examples from recent popular authors.  She makes you see the difference of a mediocre description of setting to one that's holy moley is that how it's done.Here is the table of contents for Book 2:1. Using setting to show emotion2. Using setting to create complication3. Using setting to show backstory.With the techniques in this book and the first, I know how to make settings do double and triple duty.If you take a class with Mary you're never going to be the same as when you started. We're talking about breakthroughs, here.  She pushes you to be your best.  But, if you can't take her class get the book.  I can't get enough of her teaching so I got both.I highly recommend this book.