Chalk Scribblers workshop: setting in story

Every story is a blend of many different elements and in this moderated discussion, we’ll be focusing on the story setting. We’ll talk about what makes a good setting, how to use the setting and how to incorporate that knowledge into our own work.

Our starting point will be two classic short stories that use very different settings in different ways:

· To Build a Fire by Jack London.

· The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.

We’ll start by deconstructing the techniques and then move on to talk about how to apply them.

Please read the stories before the workshop.

As luck would have it, we’ve landed on two stories that use the horror techniques we discussed in our last workshop although neither are usually classed as horror stories. Nevertheless, the themes are adult – albeit not as adult as in our last workshop – so keep away from small children.