From the course: The Foundations of Fiction

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Time period (advanced)

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From the course: The Foundations of Fiction

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Time period (advanced)

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- 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…

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