Focus on Setting
A writing prompt to feed your creative mind
Consider a setting you find compelling. Write three sentences to describe the setting.
Now write three sentences to describe the setting at close-range. (For example, if the setting is a city street, focus on the cracks in the asphalt or the smell from the gutter.)
Now write three sentences from a great distance. (For example, describe something happening just beyond the street, describe the architecture or the size of the buildings, or imagine the aerial view.)
Share your writing in the comments below!
This writing prompt is from How to Read Like a Writer by Erin M. Pushman, published by Bloomsbury Academic.
The darkness could be felt rather than seen – a thickness of absence. Sound was impossibly amplifed, even though there was no sound. And the ceiling of the cave might have been a foot away or a mile, it was impossible to tell.
“I sat on a bench to watch people bathing in the white afternoon light on this cloudless day. The glittering St. Lawrence River bounced off the dappled light softly. The blue sky tempered the cold water travelling from the Great Lakes, it warmed up the chill and made you want to join the river on its sojourn to the edge of the world for the midsummer.” - an excerpt from my recent piece ’Catkins and Cobblestones’ https://thequietcompas.substack.com/p/catkins-and-cobblestones?r=1p0vbv&utm_medium=ios