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Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of Time and Place in Your Fiction

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For more than 10 years, this successful series has helped writers improve their work — one element at a time. Featuring quality instruction from award-winning authors, each book focuses on a key facet of fiction writing, making it easy for writers to find the specific guidance they're looking for.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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