Story Settings

Most of my stories are set in my hometown, Coventry. I have set a couple in Camden and NYC because I have visited them frequently but I'm very Stephen King-esque when it comes to settings, so it's usually close to home.

Travis McCoy.:

Be My Bad Boy is set in Las Vegasish area.

Rainbow In The Dark is set just off the Vegas Strip. It's a strip c;ub. :tehe:

Obvious is partly set in the ghetto of somewhere I made up, and partly set in a really nice neighborhood.Somewhere In Between was set in Chicago.

You Make It Harder Than It Has to Be is set in Chicago.

I'll Let You Sleep Tonight is set in Chicago and various other cities. (unposted)

40 Steps is set in various cities/Chicago

My Window Got The Light That I Know Chicago/Milwaukee

These Lights is set in 1940s Chicago, and 1940s Great Britain.
(unposted)

Rainy Monday is set in Chicago

Meet Me At My Window is set in Chicago

I write Avenged fan-fiction, for chaptered stories, so they're set in California. I don't tend to move them out of there, either.
In my one shots, location is rarely specified and I don't even think about it.

I generally set my stories in the north of England, vaguely. It's what I know. Sometimes it's really vital, therefore obvious, like in Late Night, Maudlin Street where it's mentioned because that's where Morrissey grew up and the song that it's based on is about the street he grew up on, or in this unposted novel-length thing (that I'm going to turn into a screenplay for Scriptfrenzy next month) that was set in Blackpool, and really couldn't have been set anywhere else. It's summarised in 100 words in Boy, 15, Learns When to Shut Up.

But yeah, for that thing, Blackpool, or at least a romantic/dystopic version of it, was really needed, both because I was actually in a hotel there and was just home from spending the day in the center of that town's madness when the main character 'walked into my head', so to speak (because that really does happen, doesn't it? He started talking to me, actually. I could see his face and he was talking to me, so I started writing down what he was saying), and because Blackpool to that character's situation and that story is what New York is to Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. A flaw of that story is that it's essentially the present-day northern English Catcher in the Rye.

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is set all over the USA, but mostly I think in the eastern end of the south, in the east coast and the New England area, if that thing's epicness doesn't just cause it to eat itself, which it may very well unless I turn it into a verse novel or something not quite so heavy.

Acting On Love was set in New York, and its sequel's going to be set in a lot more places :tehe: Europe is probably where more of it will take place, although I'm not entirely sure.

Texas—I haven’t traveled the world, and I was little when I went to Orlando for Disney World. So, anywhere in Texas—mainly places I know, like Houston, McAllen [which makes me want to write a story now, because that place is inspiring], and some other locations that I won’t share, because I might get stalked :cute:

Setting isn't generally too important to my story.
It's usually the house or the bus or the store or the school.
And they'll go to different places, but a city isn't usually described.
Even if the city is named, like Vegas or LA, it's still not described. "This street and then this street and then that turns into Parkview Circle" and stuff.

druscilla; gutter.:

Setting isn't generally too important to my story.
It's usually the house or the bus or the store or the school.
And they'll go to different places, but a city isn't usually described.
Even if the city is named, like Vegas or LA, it's still not described. "This street and then this street and then that turns into Parkview Circle" and stuff.

Thats how I am becoming now :tehe:

My current story's in an all boy's school in Pennsylvania. That and the wilderness outside of it. That's all and that's how I like it. :cute:

I usually set mine in the city, because my plots all usually revolve around drugs and how many drug dealers can you find in a small town? I hate cities, I live way out in the middle of nowhere. Cities, specifically New York work best for my style of writing.

My "Am...?" series starts out in Pennsylvania, but switches to California. It is also set in Massachusetts for a time. With "Jetsy" it's either California, Pennsylvania, or New York City.

With the Guardian Vampire trilogy I'm writing, it's mostly New York City. There was one that I set in Romania because of the whole vampire thing. It was fitting, so that's what I went with.

I use the East Coast a lot because that's where I live, but California is used in honor of my sister who dreams of being a star. Through fiction, she can live out that dream.

I usually set my stories in either England or some rich estate in another part of the world like the States or France. I don't know. I'm just so attached to setting my stories with the rich or historic. I'm a big fan of movies like Pride and Prejudice, A Little Princess, or the Secret Garden. So yeah, big, wealthy family or settings like those really interest me alot.

It's hard setting my stories in places that I've never been to, at all, so that's why I get A LOT of research done before diving into my story. But honestly, the researching part is quite fun.

It all depends on what I'm writing about really, if it's fanfiction(undoubtedly), it's based around the general area the person is originated around. However, if it's an original story, I tend to make up my scenery and not give them a specific location.

Setting usually isn't very important in my stories, but it varies. A lot of them are just sort of... suspended in the moment, or take place in an anonymous city or town.Amd I like writing "roadtrip" stories, so the location is always changing, until (maybe) a final destination. However, in something like Heat, the location is really important. It takes place in the south United States (NM, AZ, TX), and Northern Mexico, and the locations are symbolic as well as physical.

I'd love to write an urban fiction, where the city is almost another character. I've always loved reading them, and I'm actually taking a class on urban fictions of LA and NYC. I could rock a Detroit story. :3

Depends on what the story is about, I guess.
Sometimes small towns and sometimes cities.
Mostly Chicago if it's a city, or Boston, just because I like them more than others.

If I write fanfiction then it's about anime so it's where and whenever they already live. For a couple of my original one-shots it's pretty much not named where they come from. In my story, Its All in the Stars, I made up a completely different world with a few countries. A bunch of my stories which haven't been posted yet are set in the same world. I think I'm going to add more countries as I write more stories. The time period is really unclear in the world made. It seems middle age-ish, but not. It's a little weird.

When I first started to write, all my stories were in Los Angeles, California but now they vary. One Black Wish is mostly in Montana, Hold Me Until Its Over is in California, and Inside Out is in Georgia.

It really depends on the type of story for me. I usually set my original stories in the South, mainly South Carolina, because that's where I live and that's what I know. Originals are set in either South Carolina or in an unnamed small southern town like where I live.

My Andrew McMahon fics all take place in California. Other various fanfics I've done have either been set in New York or California. My "The Office" story is set mainly in Scranton, Pennsylvania because that's where the show takes place, but I plan on having some parts set in South Carolina and New York as well.

Mine is always in some American City, aka in LA. It really depends on what story I'm writing; if it's about the Jonas Brothers, then it'll be where they live. If it's Twilight based, then in Washington.
I should really base my stories in Melbourne (Australia), though. Since it's the best place in the world and also where I live :)

My story setting usually happen in the southwest, because it's where I'm from. If I'm writing something that I don't really want to do much research on, I just say they're from New Mexico because it's my state and I know about it.

I use to only have settings of places I've been. For example, one of my earlier disasters was set in Las Vegas because I had visisted there a lot and really liked it. I've tried branching out since then. I had one story set in New York. One I'm writing now is set in space. That's pretty awesome, but requires a lot of research.

Short stories almost never include a real place setting. I just kind of write them and forget all about telling the reader where they're at.