The 6 steps to creating vivid settings.

This would be a short but informative post. We are going to go over the 6 steps to creating vivid settings. Settings not only play as a background for your story but they also impact the characters behavior, based on the characters surroundings they make their choices.

The setting of a story is the environment your characters are in. The location, time, and weather all play major points in a story, and a well-described setting can make it more interesting for your readers to completely immerse themselves in the fictional world you’ve created. When you describe your setting, use detailed language and have your characters interact with it to engage your readers. When you have a detailed setting, your story will come to life!

Settings don’t necessarily have to be physical, like the ocean or the garden, it can be a sense of time, like the past, present or future, or it can also be an action or environment, like war, the stone age, or the Victorian era. Environmental Setting means the descriptive information that portrays or captures various aspects of the existing environmental condition within an area including existing problems relating to the environment and public health. Environmental settings can be a result of an action done that impacts its surrounding. The best example of an environmental setting is war, but there are plenty of other examples.

In which ever possible way you perceive it, a story cannot be a story without a setting. Read on to find out the 6 steps to create a vivid setting:

To create a believable settings, description is the key, you need to have good imaginative skills to imagine yourself in that setting and write all the key descriptions that come into your head. Follow the steps to create vivid settings:

1. Start simple

Create a line describing your setting (I chose a coffee shop)

A small corner shop stood at the junction near the street.

2. Add the details

The next step is adding specific details for the reader to picture in their mind eye.

A small coffee corner shop stood at the end of the junction near the main street.

3. Create action.

The action can be direct or inanimate, each tiny action can create an impact on the reader, even without knowing it.

A small coffee corner shop stood at the end of the busy junction near the main street crowded with people on the sidewalk.

4. Add adjectives

Adding adjectives helps in conveying the mood you want to set for your setting. The mood or tone helps the reader visualize how he/she should think of the place.

A small and overcast corner shop stood still and plain at the end of the busy junction near the main street crowded with rushing and bustling people on the sidewalk.

5. Explore Other senses

We all have five senses, use these senses to create and imagine how the reader could sense it too.

A small and overcast corner shop stood still and plain at the end of the busy junction near the main street crowded with rushing and bustling people on the sidewalk. The smell of strong coffee flew carelessly in the wind.

6. Use active verbs

A small and overcast corner shop stood still and plain at the end of the busy junction near the main street crowded with rushing and bustling people on the sidewalk. The smell of strong coffee flew carelessly in the wind, it filled the air around the junction and the whole of the street.

Now all you have to do is add your protagonist in the setting!

A small and overcast corner shop stood still and plain at the end of the busy junction near the main street crowded with rushing and bustling people on the sidewalk. The smell of strong coffee flew carelessly in the wind, it filled the air around the junction and the whole of the street. I followed the strong and sweet aroma, as it prompted my taste buds without even reaching my mouth.

Creating setting like these makes it more believable and vivid for your readers to picture what you do. Being a writer is about your imagination and how you pen those down. Following these simple steps can paste down the picture in your head onto the page of the book so that others can see the same image you picture