Want a realistic setting? Pull from real life!

Many settings in your books will be places that countless other authors have described.

That doesn't mean yours have to blend in with everyone else's, though.

Editor and author Kris Spisak suggests an exercise to get you in the habit of sharing compelling and memorable details about your scenes: pull from your past.

Spisak provides a few description-writing challenges, with example questions to kickstart your memory, at Writer's Digest.

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