: Re: Does the country matter in a story if it is set in a real one? So far I've been setting my stories in the country I live: Taiwan. Not because I love my country. In fact, I'm not fond

@Debbie451

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Everything in your story should serve your story. The setting, the geography, the era, the culture, the time of day, the weather, the characters, their gender, their names, their descriptions, their language(s), their histories.

If you've chosen a familiar setting because your story works best there, fine. If you want to set your story about ninjas fighting sharks in the American Old West, however, you'd better have a good in-universe reason for doing so. It has to make sense.

As long as the setting (Japan, Hawaii, Mars) works for the story, then no, it doesn't matter.

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