You are most welcome, Jennifer. Your awareness of the integral relationships between character motivations, tensions, and individual and overarching themes will help your stories be satisfying. Best of luck with your writing journey.

Thank you for such a useful treatment of the topic. The series has been incredibly useful to me.

As far as my main deep dive into my story-part analysis, I have to examine character motivations and ensure it jives with tensions AND with individual and overarching themes.

Thank you again for this wonderful series on revision!

Jennifer

I'm so happy it's helpful for you, Denise.

See, Jenn, I don't think setting does come easy to most writers...we just always think it does (for everyone else). I was reading through the comments, and most of us think we need work there. 🙂

I hear you, Lisa. I received a criticism once that the "newbie" mistake I made was to have the scene take place in a white room, burned me up so much I re-wrote the scene to be deliberately set in a white room. Not sure I got the justice I was seeking, but it did make me pay more attention to sensory details. lol.

Thanks, Jenn. Don't count me as one of those who finds settings easy. LOL. Definitely one I have to work on more than others.

If I only had to chose one part of my story to analyze, it would be setting. I write lean to start, then when I edit, I have to go in and flesh out all those fun little details, but my setting always seems to be disjointed and ugly when I try and force it in. So, I have to spend way more hours writing and rewriting something that comes so easy to other writers.