I decorated this tree as I handed out Halloween candy. It has a Fall theme after all.

Writing: Setting is more than where the story is happening. It's also when --the season (See how I connected this to the tree), the time of day. Setting extends to other details the reader needs to experience the character's world-- the weather, the political climate. Through setting a mood is drawn, a plot twists, and a sense of reality is struck with with reader.

Note to self: I'm working on a book set a hundred years from now--expand on setting until I know this future world as I know my own present.