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Are Your Settings Fading into the Background? – On the RMFW Blog

April 22, 2026 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

In your stories, settings can and should be doing more for you than just establishing time and location. Settings can help enhance your characters, set the atmosphere and tone of a scene or entire book, and ratchet up the tension and conflict. I show how on the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers blog this month, in “Bring Your Settings Out of the Background.”

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: atmosphere, character, conflict, location, mood, revising, revision, settings, tension

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