Story settings

From enchanted forests to futuristic cities, discover 20 unique story settings that will transport your readers to unforgettable adventures.

This guide has 5 great ways to start your story if you're stuck.

Realistic settings immerse readers in the story, as well as contributing to the story's overall atmosphere and mood. These hacks help you to make your settings more immersive.

This guide gives you some tips on dropping hints of romance without explicitly stating it, or having your characters shout it from the rooftops.

this is another old photo from the archives. i took this in edinburgh, scotland, in october 1991. i had just met florian while backpacking in ireland, but he'd gone back to munich, and i didn't know if i'd ever see him again. while in edinburgh, i called him from a red telephone box, and in a single phone call, everything changed. :-) flickr is an amazing phenomenon. it makes the world a much smaller place -- like connecting me with bootpainter, fellow libra, who's from edinburgh, and was…

copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman The four primary elements of fiction are plot, character, setting, and theme. Associated with most of these is a cluster of related components: plot is divisible into exposition, inciting moment, rising action, turning point, falling action, moment of final suspense, and (depending upon whether the narrative is a comedy or a tragedy) resolution or catastrophe. Of course, all plots are also derived from, and developed upon, conflict. Likewise, setting is not…

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A great setting can offer much more to a story than just a place where characters move around and talk to each other. A great setting that’s used in the right way can add to the tone and mood you want to create in your story. In this blog post, I’ve compiled 12 questions to help you develop your story’s setting.