So, moving right along, today we’re going to talk about my favorite book worlds/settings. If you haven’t been following along with the other children, click here and here to catch up – the very short-hand version is that I saw another blogger’s post about her favorite characters and that got me thinking about my own favorite fictional men and women. In the course of doing that my mind wandered a bit (as my mind is wont to do) and I realized that authors don’t only spend time crafting personalities for their stories, but settings for them as well – and that those settings are usually as critical to the overall story as the personalities that populate them.

I’ve had a guest post or two on this very topic – check them out here and here – perhaps that’s where all this introspection about settings came from. Or perhaps it originated in the course of my own writings. I’m working on a number of things (well, “working” is sort of a misnomer at the moment, as I’m not really writing so much fiction lately what with all the packing and moving – have I mentioned we are moving? Well, we are…) that involve the regular world, in which setting isn’t so very critical, but am also working on a bit of a dual-world story (complete with a talking frog, teehee) in which setting will be a huge component of at least part of the story (the part set in the alterna-world). And believe me, it’s fun and also a surprising amount of work to develop your own world.
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