S2 Exercise 17: Creating Your Own Setting

CREATE YOUR OWN SETTING

In order to create realistic settings in your imaginative and personal writing, you must appeal to the reader’s senses.   In describing the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures of a particular setting, you will create a vivid impression of a particular place and time.

Think about Buchanan Street in Glasgow on Christmas Eve and imagine your teacher has asked you to write a story which takes place there.   Consider carefully the details which you would describe to convey the hustle and bustle of this setting and then write at least one sentence in your jotter for each of the headings set out below.