Comments on: Write Where You Know http://kaitnolan.com/2008/01/09/write-where-you-know/ Action packed paranormal romance Wed, 30 May 2012 13:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Susan B. http://kaitnolan.com/2008/01/09/write-where-you-know/#comment-1485 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:31:56 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/write-where-you-know/#comment-1485 Well, this was damned eloquent. Well done. And yes, you know I agree, that the setting stuff in this story has had a lot more depth than, say, HOC. And then in earlier incarnations of HOC, there were contrived elements of the setting that weren’t necessary to the story. You thought them up because you were thinking up the whole place, so you put them in and they pulled me out of the story. All fixed now, but a hazard of what you’re talking about. It seems like with this one, you’re not reaching like that, you’re not sitting back and mapping out a town and various businesses. It’s growing much more organically, and that comes through.

As far as being limited by the reality of a region, case in point: Veronica Mars. You won’t see this like I do because I lived in Southern California for a decade, but part of my fascination with that show is Where The Heck is Neptune? Because it borrows from so many different towns and areas in the region, it’s impossible to pinpoint. And while it’s fun to try to recognize elements and try to figure out where is Neptune in this episode, it remains fictional enough that sometimes I actually believe there is a Balboa County Sheriff’s Department.

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