A Little Bit About Settings....
Settings... where does your story take place? In Heaven? Hell? Another planet? This world? If it is this world, what time frame? Middle Ages? The future? World War I or II? Another time entirely? And how does that setting affect the rest of your story? Does the environment your characters are living in shape their personalities or how they get by in life? Are they isolated with few friends because of the terrain or location? So many questions right? But this is something that every writer has to deal with when telling a story. And of course your setting can also shape what genre of story you are telling. Take Frank Herbert's "DUNE". The setting of Arakis had a major role in shaping the main character Paul and his mother. From leaving a world of splendor with water and lush vegetation to going to a barren desert planet, where water was more valuable than money or any riches. The dangerous and hars...