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    The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces

    By Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi

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    Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal of all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Rather than being a simple backdrop against which events unfold, every location has the potential to become a conduit for conveying emotion, characterizing the cast, providing opportunities for deep point of view, and revealing significant backstory.

    Inside The Urban Setting Thesaurus, you’ll find:

    •A list of the sights, smells, tastes, textures, and sounds for over 120 urban settings
    •Possible sources of conflict for each location to help you brainstorm ways to naturally complicate matters for your characters
    •Advice on how to make every piece of description count so you can maintain the right pace and keep readers engaged
    •Tips on utilizing the five senses to encourage readers to more fully experience each moment by triggering their own emotional memories
    •Information on how to use the setting to characterize a story’s cast through personalization and emotional values while using emotional triggers to steer their decisions
    •A review of specific challenges that arise when writing urban locations, along with common descriptive pitfalls that should be avoided

    The Urban Setting Thesaurus helps you tailor each setting to your characters while creating a realistic, textured world readers will long to return to, even after the book closes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngela Ackerman
    Release dateJun 10, 2016
    ISBN9780989772587
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      This review provides my evaluation of The Urban Settings Thesaurus and the The Rural Settings Thesaurus. Puglisi and Ackerman have published eight thesauri for use by writers. Each begins with an informative introduction of 60-100 pages. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs, described in the introductory text and appendices, is the theoretical framework underlying the content, but it is not central in these two volumes. Aside from this front material, these thesauri are technical references to consult when addressing particular needs.The thesis of these thesauri is the setting is an integral part of every scene in every story. Settings have emotional values that can function as a vehicle for steering the story. The setting can provide tests the character must pass or downtime for reflection and recovery. If a setting is important enough to be part of a scene, it should also have a specific identity.The book provides an alphabetically ordered list of more than 100 settings found in rural (or urban) locations. The topics covered include the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures, people commonly found, related settings, and the resulting effects of the setting.These thesauri function best as references to consult when looking for help or inspiration in describing a setting.