An interesting setting/location can give our characters more to work with and drive our story and as writers, we should constantly be searching for new places to set stories.
This article about Newburgh would make a great setting for a movie in the urban drama and crime genres and is just one of the “locations” described in today’s newspaper.
As an exercise:
Where does your story take place? Is it a big city, a small town or something more exotic? Why does your story have to take place there? What if you moved your story to a completely different type of place? Would your story still work? Would it be better?
