Don’t lose your reader’s attention. Keep things moving by making things different. This advice will help you to bring variation into your novel.
1. Vary your scene setting…
We all know that setting adds mood and atmosphere and enables your reader to visualise the place you are writing about. Adding sensory description such as sounds, textures, and tastes improves the experience still further and will transport your reader into your fictional world. If you go one step further by describing your setting through a character’s perspective then you will connect your character with the environment and the setting will be more authentic and rooted. Varying your settings will enable you to do the above many times over and will keep your sense of place interesting. Depending on your plot, try using interior settings such as a room in a house that has personal, emotive associations or maybe a church or a garden shed… and use exterior settings such as a beach, a playground or a garden. Each setting will have a different part to play.
