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“You don’t have to shoot me with the damn thing to get your point across! I still think it’s a stupid idea but I promise if you shoot me with one more thing ever again I’m putting a bullet in your ass.”

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Do you have any tips on writing about the lighting/atmosphere of a room? It's something I always seem to have trouble with.

Atmosphere seems to be more related to what a characters feels about a room, or what the writer wants to evoke, while lightning seems to be more related to light sources.

Time/Space

Might sound like sci-fi but the physical place where the scene takes place is as important as the time of the day, or night, it occurs.

If your scene takes place on a field at midnight, look for light sources, as streetlamps or the moon, if it happens on a bedroom at sunset, the lightning will differ. White lights are also called cold lights, and yellow lights, warm lights. The atmosphere of a room will vary if you use a cold light instead of a warm light, the amount of light sources also modifies the way you see a room.

Senses

The atmosphere of a place is felt through our senses, whether if it’s cold or warm, ventilated or dense, humid or dry.

When you step in a bathroom right after someone took a shower is not the same as entering before someone takes one. The same if a room has open or closed windows.

Characters

Not every person feels a room the same way as another. What a character feels in a certain room tells the readers about them. For example, I don’t feel comfortable in a room with pastel green, or pastel blue walls, iluminated by warm lights, and high ceiling. I don’t know why, could be a childhood issue, but these rooms make me feel uneasy, The same can happen to your characters.

And, not every characters uses and decorates a room the same way as another, every room is a small world created by different people.

Use of space

I mentioned above high ceilings. Every room is different, from what’s made of to the furniture. Describing everything will bore your readers, and unless is plot required, there’s no need to describe everything in a room.

Genres

There isn’t a rule that associates rooms and genres, but there are some patterns, in sci-fi there’s the use of white lights instead of warm ones, in mystery/horror dark and cold rooms can be found, fantasy has a place for big rooms, and so on.

Here’s a link,give it a read

Writing: How to Describe a Room

Also look for room’s descriptions on books from different genres.

L.-

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Brothers

Jared’s boots thumped heavily on the floor and he wished he didn’t have to make so much noise. More than one aggravated spirit was not something he wanted to deal with. The thought was put out of his head though as his brother stopped at the end of the hall and he spotted two men. One with a gun and one with a flashlight. The vague idea that they were there for the same reason he and his twin were crossed his mind before he rushed to catch up with his brother, drawing his own gun but not yet taking the safety off. He didn’t care who they were, he didn’t trust them. Lukas opened his mouth to say something but Jared cut him off. “I could ask you the same thing.” He stated, somehow seeming older than his brother even though they were the same age. He just looked tougher, more hard, even though they were identical.

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Dean narrowed his eyes at seeing the new approaching teen produce a firearm of his own. “Put it down.” Dean barked. What the hell were kids doing with guns anyway? Had their parents forgotten to lock their weapons away and the kids managed to grab them and go out on an adventure in the old building? “Woah, everyone slow down.” Sam said, taking a step past his brother which Dean wasn’t at all pleased about. “We’re security. This place is off limits.” He explained and pulled out one of his IDs to show, this one having a shield on it in the shape of the usual police emblem. “You kids shouldn’t be here. This place is unstable, the supports are rotten and can collapse at any point.” He went on to explain. “You should scram before we take you down to county jail for trespassing.” Dean interjected with a threat that no one ever seemed to want to test. At this point the brothers had feigned government officials so much, the lies rolled from their mouths easily and convincingly.

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