The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces Memoir_Gift_Guide New York Times and USA

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good Girl

Exploration of the Theban Tombs of the Kings

Directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero

it wasn’t expected to become the cultural force it is today

Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife

The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces Memoir_Gift_Guide New York Times and USAMaking readers care and feel like they're part of the story should be the number one goal for all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction's most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Not only can the right location become a conduit for emotion, it can also provide conflict, characterize the story's cast, reveal significant backstory, and trigger the reader's own emotional memories through sensory details and