Writing Magazine

REIMAGINING REALITY

Where am I going to set my next novel?

This is a question many writers of fiction must ask themselves from time to time. It’s clearly one that can occupy a lot of head space in a novelist’s planning-and-reflecting stages, while he or she is thinking about starting a new story.

Of course, regional sagas, sex-in-the-city romantic comedies, crime series and even fantasy fiction can all be set in recognisable places. But there’s nothing to stop an author reimagining these real places to suit the action.

How could you use real places in your own fiction?

How could

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