In today's episode, Jeremy and Trevor turn their discussion on craft to another important element: setting. They talk about the importance of setting and provide some key terms in their discussion sure to help any up-and-coming writer or anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of the craft of fiction.

Descriptive Pause -- a halt in the narration to provide a description of the setting.

Mock-heroic -- giving kingly importance to an otherwise pedestrian object.

The Objective Correlative -- coined by TS Eliot; the outside mirrors the inside. With respect to fiction, this means that the setting should reflect or mirror the inner state of the character.

Thisness (haecceitas) -- from midieval theologian Duns Scotus -- detail that draws abstraction towards itself and seems to kill that abstraction with a puff of palpability. It makes an object this rather than just that. It personalizes the object.

Significant Detail -- detail that is important to the setting or the character or the plot of the story.

Insignificant Detail -- any detail that doesn't add anything to the setting, character, or plot, and so shouldn't be focused on in the prose.

Significantly Insignificant Detail -- detail that seems unimportant at first, but later plays an important role.

Estranging -- defamiliarizing an otherwise common object or showing it through a lens that makes it difficult to recognize.

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