Joan Aiken uses landscape to encompass and embody the stories she tells—sometimes. When she does it, I find the novels incredibly compelling. It’s odd that she doesn’t always do it, though, come to think of it. I want to use landscape that way. I’m impatient with fuzzy going nowhere stories, or rather one, anyway. I decided every location (or scene) has to be doing three things. Location and landscape have to have a role in the story, not just be a place things happen.Landscape has to be integral to storytelling, that’s what I’m saying. I’m all adamant about it now.

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