Story setting: What is a story setting and setting examples

Story setting: What is a story setting and setting examples. Woman with pink nail polish holding an empty white frame against a landscape of water and a white cliff face. Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels.

 Don’t do the setting of a story before reading this!

A key foundation for all good life stories is setting.

Indeed settings can create mood for your project.

Plus they help introduce characters into a story.

So let’s find out about different types of settings and how to get started…

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Go by Boat: Dr Chuck Radis’s Maine medical memoir

Go by Boat: Dr Chuck Radis’s Maine medical memoir. Green mid-harbour buoy covered in ice, book cover of Go by Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor, and a portrait photo of Radis wearing gloves to hold a lobster. Photos by Chuck Radis, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and Tux Turkel/ Portland Press Herald/ Getty Images
Go by Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor (centre) by Dr Chuck Radis (right), and a mid-harbour buoy in 2013 (left). Photos by Chuck Radis, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers and Tux Turkel/ Portland Press Herald/ Getty Images

Case study: Peaks Island doctor’s humorous and heartbreaking stories

Go by Boat: Stories of a Maine Island Doctor by Dr Chuck Radis is an immersive life-story read.

It tells how Radis, fresh out of training nearly 40 years ago, moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine.

Next he slowly adapts to a medical practice where x-rays and advanced laboratory testing are available only on the mainland. 

So keep reading to find out more about Radis, his book and advice for fellow life-story writers…

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