Writing Practice Prompt #3

Describing the setting in your story can do more than help your readers picture the scene. The setting can also help set the tone or mood of a scene too.

For example, if you're writing horror, you can add a sense of foreboding or create a creepy atmosphere in the way you describe the setting. Is your character in a dark, dank place? Or maybe a dentist's office has a lot of eerie patient portraits whose grins seem sinister? Or maybe it's a lovely, nice old lady's house that's a bit too perfect?

The colors, time of day, lighting, decorations, smells, sounds, etc. in a setting can all be used to help set the tone.

Below is a picture of a guy standing at the edge of an empty subway platform. First, describe the setting as you see it. Second, try describing the setting to seem 1) scary  2) hopeful 3) sad.

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Writing Practice Prompt #1

Your main character wakes up having no idea where they are except that they are in some kind of forest. Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to describe this forest as your character tries to figure out their location. 

Suggestions:

• Keep in mind the 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing) as you describe the setting. 
• Is this a regular forest here on earth, an alien planet forest, a fantastical or magical forest?

Feel free to comment below with the scene you wrote!