When you're writing, you tend to focus on the characters, dialogue, and plot. While those are all incredibly important to nail, you could be neglecting your locations. Locations are not just where the story happens but they can become a character unto themselves. What's Breaking Bad without the Arizona desert or The Sopranos without the Bing? I mean... you can't have The Office without... well... an office. Today I want to go over how locations can become a character within your story. How you can deepen the narrative with a great location, and even build an entire story around a specific spot. Your Location is a Character When you study character development and character arcs as much as we do here, you start to get a feel for where things are going in every story. But the things that continue to surprise us are the locations within stories. Not just how creative people get with where things are located but also how these locations embody the themes and motifs of the story. So let's look at how that's done in movies and TV. Locations in Movies Your locations have a lot to say. They can also be folded into the folklore of your world. I'm thinking of places like the Shire or even Shawshank prison. But for me, there's no more mythical location than Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hogwarts is the primary location for everything happening in the seven Harry Potter films and books. It has its...
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