Time period (advanced)

- Jo, if you could live in any…time period, what would you choose?…- Do you even have to ask?…Of course it's Regency era England.…You know, Jane Austen's time.…- Yeah, you do love your Jane Austen,…but I just can't picture you going to these fancy balls…and wearing laced bonnets and dresses.…- That's true, but maybe I'd be like Jane herself.…I'd be this quiet, observant writer…sitting on the sidelines watching…all the drama and then writing about it.…- I could totally see you doing that.…- What about you?…- I would definitely live in the court…of Marie Antoinette in 18th century France.…

With all those fancy parties and balls and feasts.…- And beheadings.…- Oh, yeah.…- That's the good thing about being a fiction writer…is you can go to all these different times…and places just by setting a story there.…- Without the risk of being beheaded.…- When we talk about the setting of a novel,…movie, play, or a short story,…we're not just talking about where…the characters live or where they travel to.…- [Jessica] Setting also refers…