4 ways that details of your setting can enhance your novel

Advice about what details to include in your fiction always boils down to the question of whether it advances your plot or enhances character development.

If you struggle with that question, we have some good news: author Barbara Linn Probst has listed four ways in which details about a story's setting can achieve that big-picture goal.

Learn more about these four story-relevant aspects of setting — and see them in action in her post at Writer Unboxed.

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