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I think it's important to figure out why you were bored by the mining community setting. Is it because the character made too much of the details without giving the reader a sense of why they were ...
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System
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2019-12-13T12:00:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T03:13:49Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/9592 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
I think it's important to figure out _why_ you were bored by the mining community setting. Is it because the character made too much of the details without giving the reader a sense of why they were important? For example, if the reader is following the character through a day in the mines, are the details important because we don't know if at any moment the mine is going to collapse on the protagonist or her father? I think it's less important to make the setting generic as is it to make the underlying meaning relatable. I can identify with feeling isolated, out of place, like I don't belong, but done correctly, it shouldn't matter if the isolated protagonist is in New York City, Amish country, Paris (France), Paris (Texas), Poughkeepsie, or Peoria.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2013-12-01T15:58:46Z (almost 11 years ago)
Original score: 7