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without stopping to check the condition of his silk pocket handkerchief?Case StudiesIvy looks backIvy was brought up in a rural village but has lived most of her adult life in the city.Prompted by nostalgia, she decides to set her contemporary novel in the area where she spent her childhood and describes the surrounding countryside in meticulous detail.Fortunately, she decides to visit her old home before she completes the novel, to discover an out of town shopping complex now covers the farmland where most of the present day action of her story takes place.Rachel demolishes an office blockRachel has the perfect location in mind for the fictional city setting of her historical novel.There is now an office block on the site but, with the aid of some careful research, she unearths sufficient information about the houses which once stood there to create a vividly realistic impression of the layout of city streets at the time in which her story is set.Based on her investigations, she is able to devise her own street map for reference, adapting it to suit the storyline wherever necessary.Are you thoroughly familiar with the location you are using?Do you have a map of the area?Have you calculated distances and travel times?Do you know what mode of transport your characters would use?Are you confident you know how it feels to live in your chosen period?Are the costumes accurate and do you know how it feels to wear them?This involves showing what is happening through a combination of action, reaction and dialogue rather than narrating or telling the story to the reader.One example of this technique is Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights, where the sequence of events is related in story form by one minor character to another.It slows the pace considerably and by the time the scene is set, both you and the reader may well have forgotten what the story was about in the first place.One reason for this is that, despite the ’Let me tell you a story ...’ quality of the writing, many classic tales contain far more action and interaction than you may think.It is the narrative style that creates the misleading impression of a leisurely pace,

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