Active Settings

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I had a note to myself that I should blog about "active settings." I didn't remember exactly why I'd written that phrase down, but ideas began to spill into my mind, as if the phrase was a cue.

Thinking of setting as active could be a useful concept for both historical and speculative fiction. After all, setting in where and when characters move, where they act. Setting can say things about character, and character can say things about setting. Our perception of a setting can change c...