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[Write On Wednesday] Location As Character

Sherlock Holmes has Victorian London. John Irving has New England. John O’Hara’s short stories couldn’t work without their small-town Pennsylvania backdrop. Even fantasy settings need to feel real in order to succeed (think Middle Earth, or Earthsea, or Deep Space Nine). So today we’re going to practise writing stories in which the location is as [...]