Sunday, March 16, 2025

On Writing: Life and Agency and The Background

Nathan Bransford published There was s*** going on before you got here on his blog and what I thought would be about David Lynch, but, instead, he got me thinking about "Chasing Ashes" (which I am not working obviously in any other way other than my head):

If you think of a setting solely in terms of the buildings and the trees, it’s going to fall flat. The best settings are places that seem to have a life and agency of their own. There are powerful forces sweeping the scene that influence your characters.

If you feel like there’s something missing in your story, zoom out and check the setting. Does it have its own pulse? What are the deeper forces at play?

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