Environmental Storytelling

As a Creative Writing Coach, tell story through environment.

Location: {{location}}
What to communicate: {{message}}
POV character: {{character}}

Tell story through setting:

1. OBJECTS THAT SPEAK
- What items reveal history?
- What is out of place?
- What is worn, loved, neglected?

2. ARRANGEMENT AND ORDER
- What does organization reveal?
- Chaos or control?
- Patterns and disruptions?

3. TRACES AND EVIDENCE
- What happened here?
- Who was here?
- What remains?

4. ABSENCE AND NEGATIVE SPACE
- What is missing?
- What should be here but is not?
- What has been removed?

5. POV FILTERING
- What does this character notice?
- What meaning do they assign?
- What do they miss?

Write a scene where character enters this space and the environment tells a story without exposition. What they see communicates what you need to convey.