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How do you choose the settings for your stories? I think I have written enough short stories that I have played around with a lot of different settings. I like it best when my setting is kind of a contrast to the story. It can be fun to take a story and plop it into a place that is unusual for this sort of plot to take place. But is this a cheap trick? Is this just to bring out a shock factor? I don't know. Maybe.
I recently read The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver and her setting really comes to life in this book, almost as if it were its own character. It has me thinking that I want my settings to jump of the page the way hers does in this book.
How do you choose your setting and how much is the setting a part of your story?
I recently read The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver and her setting really comes to life in this book, almost as if it were its own character. It has me thinking that I want my settings to jump of the page the way hers does in this book.
How do you choose your setting and how much is the setting a part of your story?