Crappy Jobs and Weird Food: Creating Your Setting and Culture

Setting is much more than trees and bunnies—it’s the ground under your story’s feet. However, many stories suffer from “White Room Syndrome,” when characters seem to argue and fight and fall in love while floating through space in a white room somewhere (or nowhere). In this all-genre class, we’ll use discussion and in-class exercises to explore setting in its role as catalyst, context, antagonist, and symbol. Learn how to make your reader say, “I felt like I was really there.”