Every trip away from the desk carries with it the potential to find locations for scenes you might later write. Use this structured guide to help you make location notes that will bring your settings to life

Whenever you write notes about the places you visit you're actually writing first drafts of those little throwaway descriptions you'll use, perhaps years later, in your work - getting the details down that will convince your audience that the setting of your story is real. Even if you don't end up using that particular location at all, you're honing your descriptive and observational skills, making yourself better at the art of telling your stories. You're learning to set the scene.

This book is broken down into convenient sections for you to compile your notes: things to look for, different ways to perceive your surroundings, things to do. Each of these sections includes notes and prompts to help you.

Developed with input from bestselling novelists whose books have been published by some of the biggest names in the business, The Writer's Location Primer guides you through the process of learning to see the world differently and making the kind of notes that will make you a better writer.