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Setting (Creative Writing)

Here is a scene set in a cemetery that vividly shows the setting: The old cemetery was shrouded in fog as Sarah walked among the crumbling headstones. The moss-covered graves sank unevenly into the damp earth, their eroded inscriptions barely legible in the pale gray light. Wrapping her coat tighter against the chill, Sarah peered into the mist, struggling to make out the path. Mausoleums loomed up suddenly on either side of the narrow dirt road, their stone faces worn blank by centuries of wind and rain. As she passed, shadows seemed to shift just out of the corner of her eye. The only sounds were the crunch of dead leaves underfoot and her own breath

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Setting (Creative Writing)

Here is a scene set in a cemetery that vividly shows the setting: The old cemetery was shrouded in fog as Sarah walked among the crumbling headstones. The moss-covered graves sank unevenly into the damp earth, their eroded inscriptions barely legible in the pale gray light. Wrapping her coat tighter against the chill, Sarah peered into the mist, struggling to make out the path. Mausoleums loomed up suddenly on either side of the narrow dirt road, their stone faces worn blank by centuries of wind and rain. As she passed, shadows seemed to shift just out of the corner of her eye. The only sounds were the crunch of dead leaves underfoot and her own breath

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Alex shut the lid to his laptop with a loud clap.
Some of the people sitting at the tables near him
looked up from their books and gave him annoyed
looks. Alex realized that he had disturbed them and
held up his hand apologetically. The librarian
turned toward him and shushed him loudly, perhaps
louder than the noise that he had made. Alex put the
laptop in his bag and began walking toward the
door. He held his head down low.
TEXT
2
Vincent Policarpio grabbed the control stick. Up
until now he had been a prisoner on this spaceship,
but even the captain knew that Vincent was the only
one who could navigate through an asteroid belt.
"Quick! Take these laser cuffs off!" The captain and
the guard looked at one another hesitantly. Boom!
The ship skidded off a large asteroid. "Now! Take
the cuffs off! There's no time!" Vincent shouted at
the men.
The captain gave the guard a slight nod. The
guard waved the magnetic key over the laser
cuffs on Vincent's wrists. The cuffs powered down
and fell off of Vincent's wrists. Suddenly Vincent
had full control of his arms again. Vincent tested
the movement of his arms by disarming the guard
and slapping the laser cuffs on him in one swift
motion. Vincent Policarpio was back.
SETTING
HUMSS-I (CREATIVE WRITING)
WHAT IS SETTING?

•Setting is where a story takes place.


•It is the location/place/ environment,
historical time period and social
circumstances of a story.
WHAT IS SETTING?

•It can also create the atmosphere (how the


reader or viewer feels).
•It’s easier to understand why the characters
in the story are doing what they’re doing
when we know where they are.
WHAT IS SETTING?

•The time of day, time of year, and


ages of the characters will also
affect how they act and what they
say.
MACRO VS. MICRO SETTING

•Setting works on macro- and micro-


levels. Macro-elements of setting
include features such as historical
period and nation or city; micro-
elements include specific times of day,
locations within a house or room, etc.
EXAMPLES
October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the
grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse,
was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff
and students. Her Pepperup potion worked instantly,
though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several
hours afterward. Ginny Weasley, who had been looking
pale, was bullied into taking some by Percy. The steam
pouring from under her vivid hair gave the impression
that her whole head was on fire (Rowling, 1999).
ENVIRONMENT
• Environment is the physical location. It includes
conditions such as the geographical properties (water,
sand, mountains, etc.), the cultural and social settings
(school, place of worship, community, business,
museum, theatre, etc.), and weather or climate (storm,
rain, sunshine, desert, mountain range, plains, etc.).
• Most times, environment plays a large part in the
setting of any story.
WHAT IS THE SETTING IN THE
STORY?
Sol visited the Villa quite often to wait for his
mother. But he would not come up to see her there.
He waited around near the garage, where I
worked. There we talked about school, jobs. We
attended nigh classes at Far Eastern College. He
was jobless. Soon, he became a familiar visitor at
Villa Magdalena. Nobody minded his being around.
WHAT IS THE SETTING IN THE
STORY?
Isabel had just arrived from Europe, after her
honeymoon with her husband, Dr. Abdon Vidal.
She was Donya Magdalena's niece, a Conde.
She stood to inherit a huge portion of the Conde
estate, fishponds, sugar plantations and rice
fields--that part which Don Magno had not yet
invested in leather or succeeded in putting in his
name.
WRITE A SCENE IN A STORY THAT VIVIDLY SHOWS
SETTING. CHOOSE FROM ANY OF THE SETTINGS BELOW.

•Church •Computer
•Mall Shop
Rice Field •Prison
•City street •Cemetery
•Park

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