Review: If you want to soar, get this!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 28, 2014
Writing the right amount of description to evoke a world  where characters live and breathe can be a bugaboo for writers.  Either we put too much setting in that has nothing to do with anything and the reader doze off, puts the book down (heaven forbid), or skips to where the story is unfolding. There’s also the flip side of too much and that’s too little. This dilemma could lead the reader to develop the Goldilocks’s syndrome, only reading books that are just right. Heh.As a writer, I wanted to know how to write settings that would drop my readers smack dap into a world they’ve never been to and never want to leave.  For me, Mary Buckham  new new print and e-book of “Writing Active Setting – The Complete How-To Guide.”  It’s a lifesaver for beginning, as well as advanced writers.  This has all three of the Writing Active Setting books: Book 1 -  Characterization and Sensory Detail, Book 2 -  Emotion, Conflict and Back Story, Book 3 - Anchoring, Action, as a Character and More. In addition, Mary has added bonus material all on hooks.What I personally love about this complete guide is everything is in one place.  The real winner in the books are the examples from a slew of well-known authors which Mary has deconstructed.  Each line is analyzed, so you understand what the author was going for.  But she doesn’t stop there, Mary writes a hypothetical first draft and a second draft that the author might have started with, so you can see the progression.  It makes it easy to grab hold of the concept and learn how these great authors write active settings.If you want to soar, I highly recommend “Writing Active Settings – The Complete How-To Guide.”