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Fantastic setting and how to write them
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Useful advice, thank you Quillwitch. The Cornish landscape is an integral part of my crime novels. In this way, I agree with Elizabeth George, who wrote a series of stories about Inspector Lynley:
'The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime, and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.'
'The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime, and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.'
Weather and seasonality. To me they are so important. I've been known to throw down books in disgust when the author gets those things wrong. So much of my own life revolves around the weather and the seasons, that I can't not include them in my writing. I agree that the setting is another character, with a particular personality that must integrate with the plot.
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