A necessary element to any good story is setting. It is as important as the characters - at least as it is analogous to real life. For instance, country music isn't as good without the hats, boots, sun, and outdoors. Strip mall bars will never compete with the neighborhood dives of New York. And football needs roaring passionate fans under the tall beaming lights. The setting inside the Rose Bowl was idyllic. The misty fog moved in off the golf course. Crimson red and burnt orange stained respective halves of the stands. Paratroopers dropped in overhead waving the flags of the two teams. Fireworks soared into the night sky while Air Force Jets did a fly-over. We settled into our 2nd to last row seats in the Alabama end zone. The perfectly bad seats in a perfect setting.
1/21/10
Setting
A necessary element to any good story is setting. It is as important as the characters - at least as it is analogous to real life. For instance, country music isn't as good without the hats, boots, sun, and outdoors. Strip mall bars will never compete with the neighborhood dives of New York. And football needs roaring passionate fans under the tall beaming lights. The setting inside the Rose Bowl was idyllic. The misty fog moved in off the golf course. Crimson red and burnt orange stained respective halves of the stands. Paratroopers dropped in overhead waving the flags of the two teams. Fireworks soared into the night sky while Air Force Jets did a fly-over. We settled into our 2nd to last row seats in the Alabama end zone. The perfectly bad seats in a perfect setting.
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