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# The Urban Setting Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to City Spaces (Writers Helping Writers Series)

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## Description

Making readers care and feel like they’re part of the story should be the number one goal for all writers. Ironically, many storytellers fail to maximize one of fiction’s most powerful elements to achieve this: the setting. Not only can the right location become a conduit for emotion, it can also provide conflict, characterize the story’s cast, reveal significant backstory, and trigger the reader’s own emotional memories through sensory details and deep point of view. Inside The Urban Thesaurus, you’ll find: A list of the sights, smells, tastes, textures, and sounds for over 120 urban settings Possible sources of conflict for each location to help you brainstorm ways to naturally complicate matters for your characters Advice on how to make every piece of description count so you can maintain the right pace and keep readers engaged Tips on utilizing the five senses to encourage readers to more fully experience each moment by triggering their own emotional memories Information on how to use the setting to characterize a story’s cast through personalization and emotional values while using emotional triggers to steer their decisions A review of specific challenges that arise when writing urban locations, along with common descriptive pitfalls that should be avoided Downloadable tools to help you plan each setting so you can choose the right one for a scene, providing the biggest storytelling punch The Urban Setting Thesaurus helps you tailor each setting to your characters while creating a realistic, textured world readers will long to return to, even after the book closes.

Review: Let The Urban Setting Thesaurus - SHOW - you how to write fantastic settings! - There are many books on the market today that 'tell' an author how to write. One of the tried and true axioms in writing is 'show, don't tell.' Guess what? The Urban Setting Thesaurus (and its companions, which include The Rural Setting Thesaurus among many others) 'shows' you how to write. The Urban Setting Thesaurus doesn't tell us, "Write one’s setting in this place exactly like so." No, it includes a huge variety of everyday settings in which your characters might find themselves. Then, it proceeds to unpack those settings into sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures and sensations, possible sources of conflict, people commonly found there, and even notes related settings (conveniently hyperlinked in the Kindle version). Further, these incredible references provide additional setting notes and tips and helpful example descriptions for each one. As if all that isn't valuable enough, authors Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi go even further by including key techniques and devices to employ in Urban settings, and the resulting literary effects one can achieve by doing so. An author could spend every dime of their past, present and future royalties on a whole library of reference books and still not achieve a return on their investment as valuable as this thesaurus. I think I’ll sneak past that cheap motel up ahead and make my way to the Penthouse Suite and order some room service!
Review: One of my favorite writer's references - great for brainstorming and editing. - I've used this myself multiple times, as well as gifted it. The format of information presenting in these books is second-to-none. You could use a thesaurus and still not be able to find the "feel" you're looking for, but if you use this book as a reference, it's right at your fingertips. I love the way the sensations are listed in reference to environment, and how easy it makes fleshing out a scene. Whenever I have a friend interested in writing, storyboarding, or any creative expression involving artful expression and experience of scenery, I'll always direct them to this series. An absolutely invaluable reference.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #68,487 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #46 in Authorship Reference #54 in Fiction Writing Reference (Books) #95 in Writing Skill Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,102 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Let The Urban Setting Thesaurus - SHOW - you how to write fantastic settings!
*by M***E on July 15, 2016*

There are many books on the market today that 'tell' an author how to write. One of the tried and true axioms in writing is 'show, don't tell.' Guess what? The Urban Setting Thesaurus (and its companions, which include The Rural Setting Thesaurus among many others) 'shows' you how to write. The Urban Setting Thesaurus doesn't tell us, "Write one’s setting in this place exactly like so." No, it includes a huge variety of everyday settings in which your characters might find themselves. Then, it proceeds to unpack those settings into sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures and sensations, possible sources of conflict, people commonly found there, and even notes related settings (conveniently hyperlinked in the Kindle version). Further, these incredible references provide additional setting notes and tips and helpful example descriptions for each one. As if all that isn't valuable enough, authors Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi go even further by including key techniques and devices to employ in Urban settings, and the resulting literary effects one can achieve by doing so. An author could spend every dime of their past, present and future royalties on a whole library of reference books and still not achieve a return on their investment as valuable as this thesaurus. I think I’ll sneak past that cheap motel up ahead and make my way to the Penthouse Suite and order some room service!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my favorite writer's references - great for brainstorming and editing.
*by A***R on January 5, 2025*

I've used this myself multiple times, as well as gifted it. The format of information presenting in these books is second-to-none. You could use a thesaurus and still not be able to find the "feel" you're looking for, but if you use this book as a reference, it's right at your fingertips. I love the way the sensations are listed in reference to environment, and how easy it makes fleshing out a scene. Whenever I have a friend interested in writing, storyboarding, or any creative expression involving artful expression and experience of scenery, I'll always direct them to this series. An absolutely invaluable reference.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent!
*by K***N on May 13, 2023*

Excellent! Re: The Seller – Book arrived in excellent condition, as if I had purchased it from a bookstore. Thanks for having taken such good care of it. Re: The Authors - I have to commend the authors for having the patience, determination, and fortitude to create such a work. I probably would not have given setting much thought had it not been for the fact that a story I am working on takes place in a building with multiple shops contained on the ground floor. The authors open with several chapters on the importance of setting with respect to backstory, characterization, etc. They also cover our misperceptions and snags when it comes to conveying info regarding setting. (Silly me. I was going down that rabbit-hole, too – too much or too little description!) Then comes the meat of the work: the various settings themselves, the smells, sounds, people likely to be found there and much more. We think we know that we know until we are reminded of what we have forgotten. I saw opportunities for secondary characters, clue placements, red herrings, and many other angles I can use to flesh out and give depth to an 80,000-100,000-word work. I had borrowed this work from the library and kept renewing it, reluctant to let it go. Fortunately, it has not been on hold where someone else might get it. But then I knew sooner or later I would have to return it. So, I began to try and copy some pages. I said, “try”. By the time I had copied my first 10 messy, crooked pages, I came to realize I may as well buy the book! And here we are!

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