To a writer Locations are interesting. Locations carry the visuals that communicate mood and story nuance to the viewer or reader. The Writer’s Interface gives you then a symbolic description of a generic list of places used a lot in fiction and cinema. No one else has put together such a list that we know of, and certainly not with this author’s psychological descriptions since he is also an expert psychologist. For writers needing more psychological training for richer characters and story elements, this is one of the learning helps available to you in The Writer’s Interface.

Note that in the description on the right of Abandoned House its symbolic possible meanings actually give you plot-story ideas as well. This is called ‘enriching the story’ because when you do this the reader gets more stimulation of her or his imagination and emotional involvement with your story. Knowing symbolic levels for story elements allows you to use your writer’s imagination to enhance story and thus the reader’s story experience with you.

A good writer plans Places as also story development elements, just as they plan Events as developing Scenes, and Characters as Reactive Forces to both events and places. How good a writer do you want to be? How important and knowledgeable a character in your own story are you? A story is known as much by its writer as a writer is known by his or her stories.

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