How to create vivid situations through Settings
This is a short snippet from Toolkit #2: creating compelling characters, settings and titles.
SITUATION:
Where does the story take place? What situation do the characters find themselves in at the start of the story. This will include some event that gets the story started - a problem that arises tha must be solved or a goal the main character wants to achieve.
The situation is the setting where the character finds himself faced with a problem or conflict. The situation is where the problem is introduced and where the character has to create a desired plan of action. Describing a situation means describing the plot, the conflict and the climax.
The plot: the plot contains the climax and resolution, the main story/ situation is described here. The plot is one of the most important aspects of any book and is filled with a number of various situations.
The Conflict: the conflict describes the problem, unlike the plot, the conflict describes only one situation, that is the problem that is occurring.
The climax: The climax too has one - two situations where the character testifies his plan of action, this is where the writer describes if the character's derived plan will be a success or not.
Following this pattern creates a more realistic situation for your character to be in.
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