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Q&A How to make a setting relevant?

One piece of feedback that I got on a story I wrote is that my settings feel irrelevant, or that the entire book could have been a phone call. I am not sure how to go about fixing this. The charact...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by mprogrammer‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:03:51Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/45620
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar mprogrammer‭ · 2019-12-08T12:03:51Z (about 5 years ago)
One piece of feedback that I got on a story I wrote is that my settings feel irrelevant, or that the entire book could have been a phone call. I am not sure how to go about fixing this. The characters, for example, are in an office, or a restaurant, or a different office at various times throughout the story ― but any of these places are interchangeable as my story currently stands.

**How can I tie the scenes and dialogue in my story into where the characters are?** Are there techniques that I could use to mention the setting in relation to things that the character say or do, or to make the settings matter more?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-05-31T19:01:08Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 16