WE NEED A SETTING....
Recently I read a 'best selling psychological thriller' and even though I was told the story was set 'just out of Manhattan' I honestly couldn't tell. I have never been to Manhattan, or anywhere in the United States, so I would have liked a bit of description...a setting as you will. The story could have been set any where and basically anytime. However Manhattan itself wasn't the central setting, the main character's home town and the area surrounding it was. In fact this was such a major part of how he became who he was, how the 'supernatural' aspects came about that it was vital to the storyline. And I so couldn't see it. There was hardly any description at all. Nothing that I could see or feel so I could begin to understand his character... Not that I wanted pages of description. Paragraphs of purple prose describing the wooded hills and the meandering stream...but I needed something. It is so easy to do. We all know when we w...