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.

A prologue serves as an introduction to the story, setting the stage for what's to come, and can be an excellent way to engage readers from the outset. Your prologue can: Provides background info/context Sets the tone for the story And/or gives a glimpse into the story's world. For example, prologues may include historical or cultural context, or an opening scene that establishes the theme and mood of the work, or a vignette of an event that happened long before the story started.

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…

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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.