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Setting as Character Sheet

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Make a place active in the story.

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Turn a location into a character. Location: [LOCATION]. Its role in the story: [ROLE]. Mood to evoke: [MOOD].

Create a sheet with: a one-sentence personality; history in five lines; sensory details across all five senses with two specific details each; sounds and smells at three times of day; hidden places; what the location wants (to protect, to trap, to reveal); how it changes when characters change; and three events that happen there. Provide a 150-word descriptive passage that avoids lists of adjectives and instead uses selected details and a character's perception. Offer three weak descriptions and rewrite them. Keep everything consistent with the genre of [GENRE].

Add an exercise that has a character see the location in three different moods, with a sample paragraph for each in about 50 words, to show how perception colours description. Include a list of overused descriptive crutches to avoid and a suggestion for how to vary the pace when describing the setting in action scenes.

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