WHEN INFLECTIONAL AND NON-INFLECTIONAL SETTINGS COLLIDE
In stories with Strong Inflectional Settings - Game of Thrones, Dracula, Bridgerton, Shogun - the fates of Characters and their Conflicts often revolve around the Setting in important ways
There are as many approaches to Setting / Place in fiction as there are fictions, but for the sake of our heuristic explorations let us divide them broadly between Weak Settings and Strong Settings, or to put it more technically: Non-Inflectional and Inflectional Settings. When I say Weak (Non-Inflectional) Settings I don’t mean that the Setting is feebly rendered or that it's some kind of narrative near-beer, but only that the Setting / Place only does the minimum Setting / Place work.
And no more.