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I've been applying Dean Wesley Smith's challenge to use "all five senses every two pages." Using all five senses helps remind me to include sensory details, and many of these are about setting. I'm finding that remarkably helpful. If there is some sense I haven't used lately, I may have lost touch with the setting.

Once I get the hang of this, I may drop the "every two pages" rule. But I'll likely to continue to use "every two pages" as a reminder to check whether I am giving enough sensory details to keep the reader grounded in the setting.

Another idea that I learned from Dean: All setting is opinion. What this tells me is which details to focus on. Focus on the details about which the POV character has an opinion. This helps me to introduce setting while staying firmly in the POV character's head. It also helps me to use setting as a way to characterize the character.

It also keeps me from droning on about setting. At any given moment, the character has an opinion about some elements of the setting and not others. So I mention the ones that are on the character's mind. Those are the ones that matter to the story.

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