5 ways your novel's setting can power the story

Your choice of a setting for your story should be anything but accidental or incidental.

Author Jane Bernstein shares five ways that a place can shape your story, from its plot to its characters to its tone.

Check out her post on Writer’s Digest, and if it piques your curiosity, we have plenty more advice on how to maximize the impact of your story’s setting:

• How to build a house in your reader's mind

• C.S. Lakin: Your settings shouldn't be just any old place

• Your novel's setting is also a character