SETTING THESAURUS

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Settings should always be chosen with care. Consider the emotion you want your viewpoint character to feel and how setting choices, weather elements, and symbolism might build a specific mood in the scene, create tension and conflict, or even raise the stakes.
SIGHTS:
Rolling hills with low-growing vegetation
Low clouds
Scrubby bushes growing in clumps
Stunted trees
A carpet of purple or red flowers (when the heather is in bloom)
Early morning mist
Yellow gorse blossoms
Boulders and rocks dotting the landscape
Sedges growing near a pond or creek
Animals grazing (sheep, cows, deer, ponies)
A variety of birds (grouse, merlins, peregrines)
Worms wiggling back into the earth
Voles and mice scuttling from bush to bush
Rabbits hiding in the shrubs
Foxes nosing about for dinner
Bees bumbling from flower to flower
Moths and butterflies fluttering
Peat bogs
Berry bushes
Shallow streams crisscrossing the land
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PEOPLE COMMONLY FOUND IN THIS SETTING:
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