This year I have three settings for my three act structure. I am still trying to work out the details, but the first setting is a big city, then second is a long train ride over a mostly featureless landscape, and the third is a slightly smaller city on a river estuary. I am debating about the climates and geographies of the two cities. My first idea is to make the original city snowy and dark and the destination a sunny Mediterranean city, but that strikes me as way to heavy-handed and laden with subtext.