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Business 126 Lights, Action...Wait a Minute, Where Are We?

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 5 hours
  


• Time to Complete Course: 4 Weeks
  


• Difficulty (1-5): 3
  


• Course Description: You'll look at the importance of setting as the groundwork of your story without boring your readers. You'll learn how to give vivid descriptions of the where and when. Decide whether to use real or imagined settings and the different uses of settings. Each week you will complete an exercise on that week's lesson. The fourth week, you will put it all together and post a complete setting in one or two paragraphs.



• Required Resources (texts, etc.): None
  
• Suggested Resources (texts, etc.): Fiction Writer's Workshop
  
  
  • Lesson 1: Where, When and Why
  • Lesson 2: Using Setting as Antagonist
  • Lesson 3: Special Effects
  • Lesson 4: Let's Put it All Together
  
  
  
• Classroom A
• Classroom B
• Receive lessons by email (Just send us a blank message.)

Course developed by: Priscilla Fagan

Facilitated by: Peer Group