Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Setting

Is this a specific place and not a generic one?

What do people who love this place love about it?

What do people who have lived here all their lives know about it that no one else does?

What do the tourist books about this place think is interesting?

What do the best tour guides show or tell about this place?

What are the smells here?

What sounds can only be heard here?

What is the ugliest thing about this place?

What do people hate about this place?

What foods are unique to this place?

What is the biggest danger to this place?

What are the natural geographic boundaries to this place?

When has this place been conquered and what are the results of that?

What immigrants come to this place?

What monuments or statues have been built here and to whom or to what?

What building material is frequently used here?

What architectural style is used here?

What are streets made of?

What is in the distance, beyond the horizon?

What is forbidden here?

What is the weather typically like here? What kinds of storms come? What happens when natural disasters strike? Who is hit the worst? What does not recover?