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  • Create a Great Setting for a Story: A Small, Knowable Place

    Create a Great Setting for a Story: A Small, Knowable Place

    Every great story contains a bunch of basic elements–complex characaters who offer glimpses into the variety of human motivation, action that reveals motivation and conflict, details that offer glimpses that most readers would miss, and more. To many, the setting offers the container of characters and action. To others, the setting is like an all-present “extra,”…