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Visit Real-life Locations For Inspiration
- If you need inspiration, look at the setting around you.
- You can also use pictures and videos from places you cannot visit to get a general idea of what your own location would be like.
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Use Sensory Details
- Use all five senses to describe the immediate surroundings to the reader to quickly immerse them in the environment of your story. The little details of how your marketplace smells, or what the wood...
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Show, Don't Tell
- Show how the setting changes or interacts with characters . If there’s a factory nearby, don’t just tell the reader that—describe what it smells like or how it changes the way the sky looks. You can also indicate the time of day or time of year it is in your story by including how the sunlig...
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Keep it simple
- Focus on the details that really matter. Parse out the most interesting and vital details when describing the setting of your scene to give the reader a sense of balance, and not overload them with adjectives.
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Getting skills
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Treat it like a real job
- Don't lounge around in your pajamas. Treat it like a real job.
- Create a space exclusively for work that is removed from distractions, just like you would at your office desk.
- Create boundaries within your home that your family members understand when y...
Using a VPN for research
These remote workers are many times working from a wide range of geographical locations and all of them will have a separate take on what the project must look like on Google. Keep in mind that search engines give a different input to people living around the world.
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