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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 […]

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

Using Voice to Establish Mood

March 20, 2013 by Kelley Lindberg Leave a Comment

by Kelley Lindberg Voice – it’s that elusive, yet all-important quality that makes your book uniquely yours. It’s how you observe and write about things. It’s the language you use. It’s the language your characters use. It’s the details that you choose to expound upon, the emotions you sketch upon the page, and the pacing […]

Filed Under: Writing Craft Tagged With: atmosphere, description, emotion, mood, setting, voice

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