Six Tips for Creating Your Story Setting

• How to choose a setting for your story 
As a plot develops, you’ll often need to change locations and times in a story. Your characters may be on a journey to some destination or they may need to investigate a matter. You might shift between the characters so that a scene involves the villain who is at a different location than the protagonist.

• Use caution when shifting story’s location, time 
When making such changes, always ask yourself if it is necessary to further your plot. If the change is merely done because you want to share interesting notes that you’ve researched about a new locale, then it’s probably being done for its “ooh-and-ahh” factor rather than for dramatic tension. 

• Avoid placing ‘used furniture’ in your story 

• Use care when naming places in your story 

• Avoid anachronisms in stories set in past 

• Use caution when employing empathic universe 

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