Great Settings Advance a Plot

Location, location, location

Forums are great places to troll for talent and flush out ideas on how to use great settings to advance a plot. Many of the contributors to my Writing California blog series raised their hands in the LinkedIn Fiction Writers Guild and the She Writes forum, Novelists (Struggling or Not).

I posted a question about how place can also function as a character. Clare O’Beara pointed out that settings behave like characters when they intrude on people’s lives and affect th...