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But what does it mean to provide a setting? Can you simply sprinkle in place names, add
It might not be anywhere in the confines of the piece, but your character has a relationship
It’s the start and the finish, the place of security, the origin of all things
It’s where a person belongs, truly belongs, a place of acceptance where one can relax without
Does everyone need a sense of being settled? Perhaps your character is an army brat or the
Perhaps her sense of home comes from the people she’s with as she travels
She’s Bedouin, from a tribal people, or Romani, or she picks up and moves where the
Possibly her people come from somewhere else, and where they hang their hat is her home too
We’re an immigrant people unless we are Native American, but even so, Native Americans are often
Is there a home in the search for the new? What setting is this? It’s a
I heard a story about a reporter from an active war zone who came back to the
He discovered while walking through bad neighborhoods in New York City that he finally felt at home
Home was a suburban two-story tract house for my sister and me, with individual rooms for its
My children live with each other thousands of miles from where they were born
As ever, their home is impermanent, and career plans, marriage plans, further schooling in their future eventually
I am linked to home through the only history I understand, that of family and chosen family
I have a slice of home when I’m at my friend’s house, where I know
It’s her grounding, her surroundings, her movement through space and time