Narrative Basics Lesson 3: Setting

When describing the world, we have to decide if want to summarise the description, or if we want to elaborate.

Here’s a snippet that uses summary description.

We use summary description when the details aren’t important. In this snippet, Grace Lin is letting us know that the detail of the forest isn’t important; it’s just a forest. That's all you need to know.

Here are some examples that use the same type of summary description.