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How to Level Up Your Settings, Part 2

A lesson from video games on "environmental storytelling"

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Susan Dennard
May 16, 2023
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Here’s the finished illustration by Rhys Davies that showed up in Sightwitch! Eridysi’s lab was a key setting for both Eridysi—when we are in her point of view during the book—and then for Ryder, who finds the lab a thousand years later.

Welcome to my continued discussion of setting and environmental storytelling! Don’t miss the first part here.

Now where did we leave off? Oh yeah: we can take it a step further than Chekhov’s gun by digging into all the senses and using all our objects and settings to hint at the story to come.

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