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Mary Buckham

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Episode Show Notes In this episode we cover:  The difference between active and non active settings How to make your settings more active How characters should engage with settings Mistakes to avoid with active settings How to hook your readers  Find out more about Mary: Visit her website  Subscribe to her newsletter  Friend her on Facebook Tweet her @MaryBuckham

Episode Show Notes In this episode we cover:  <ul><li>The difference between active and non active settings</li> <li>How to make your settings more active</li> <li>How characters should engage with settings</li> <li>Mistakes to avoid with active settings</li> <li>How to hook your readers</li> </ul> Find out more about Mary: <a href="http://marybuckham.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visit her website</a> <a href="https://marybuckham.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=21a956bd84643e4fb30f57860&amp;id=83c773a676" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe to her newsletter </a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mary.buckham.author" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friend her on Facebook</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryBuckham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tweet her @MaryBuckham</a>

141 How to Write Active Settings with Mary Buckham

Mary Buckham is the author of the USA Today bestselling Invisible Recruits urban fantasy series, praised for its unique voice, intense action and rich emotion. Mary co-authors the young adult sci-fi/fantasy Red Moon series with New York Times bestselling author Dianna Love, using the combined pseudonym of Micah Caida. Mary also collaborated with Love on the nonfiction Break Into Fiction and has published several writers' guides, including A Writer's Guide to Active Setting and Writing Active Hooks. She has spoken at the Writer's Digest Novel Writing Conference and other author conferences. Mary, who lives in Washington State with her husband, says her years of international travel and curiosity about different cultures resulted in creating her high-concept urban fantasy and romantic suspense stories.   Host Patricia McLinn talks with Mary about technique, mechanics, character depth and the excitement of storytelling. In Mary's words, “Writers take that what-if question and play it out. ‘What can give this character the most conflict, the biggest challenge.’ ...I am always playing with what-if.” [18:40]  You can find Mary on: Her website, Facebook or Twitter  Thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoyed the podcast enough to want to support us for future episodes. You can do that with as little as $1 a month — that’s only 25 cents per episode! What a deal! — by pledging at Patreon. It’s vital to Authors Love Readers to have your support. Thank you! Please also consider rating/reviewing the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks to DialogMusik for the instrumentals that accompany this podcast. 

Mary Buckham is the author of the USA Today bestselling Invisible Recruits urban fantasy series, praised for its unique voice, intense action and rich emotion. Mary co-authors the young adult sci-fi/fantasy Red Moon series with New York Times bestselling author Dianna Love, using the combined pseudonym of Micah Caida. Mary also collaborated with Love on the nonfiction Break Into Fiction and has published several writers' guides, including A Writer's Guide to Active Setting and Writing Active Hooks. She has spoken at the Writer's Digest Novel Writing Conference and other author conferences. Mary, who lives in Washington State with her husband, says her years of international travel and curiosity about different cultures resulted in creating her high-concept urban fantasy and romantic suspense stories.   Host <a href="http://www.patriciamclinn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patricia McLinn</a> talks with Mary about technique, mechanics, character depth and the excitement of storytelling. In Mary's words, “Writers take that what-if question and play it out. ‘What can give this character the most conflict, the biggest challenge.’ ...I am always playing with what-if.” [18:40]  You can find Mary on: Her <a href="https://marybuckham.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">website,</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mary.buckham" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/marybuckham?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> Thank you so much for listening. We hope you enjoyed the podcast enough to want to support us for future episodes. You can do that with as little as $1 a month — that’s only 25 cents per episode! What a deal! — by pledging at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AuthorsLoveReaders" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. It’s vital to Authors Love Readers to have your support. Thank you! Please also consider rating/reviewing the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dialogmusik/?ref=br_rs" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">DialogMusik</a> for the instrumentals that accompany this podcast.

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