Tag: setting

How Not to Write About Brazil (Several Tips)

Aug 17, 2012

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by

harmamae

in Brazil, On Writing

Let’s just say you’re going to write a novel set in Brazil. I know, I know, there’s not a whole ton of novels out there set in Brazil, but I think the world could use a few more set in South America. If you’re going to go that route, or even if you just want…
Travel? Research? – Getting Your Setting Right

Jun 24, 2011

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by

harmamae

in On Writing

OR: Write What You Know, Or Risk What You Don’t Know I always wonder if writers have visited or lived in the places they write about, and if they haven’t, how they feel comfortable enough writing about places they’ve never been. I’m always incredibly afraid of messing the place up and getting some hypercritical reader…