Jan 17 2010
Location, Location
Some times the location of your story can be a character in and of itself, other times it’s just a background; but it has to be something that you research just as much as your background for the more animate characters.
When looking at Sanctity most of that story takes place in a town that I can picture because it’s very similar to where I went to college, so it’s easy for me to write about that I can picture my time in college and modify things slightly, whereas where Dane fled to which is somewhere in South Carolina, that I’m not as familiar with. I’ve seen South Carolina only from the other side of the Suwannee, when we visited a friend who was in Savannah, Georgia.
So, I have to look at the which myrtle beach hotels she would have stayed in when she first got there, what sort of apartments they might have in the area that she could have moved in to. I mean, a lot of dives are going to be very similar no matter where they are, but it’s still helpful. In Florida a lot places are very Spanish in style of architectural influence, or alternately they are very similar built out of an injection mold almost, but I don’t know if that’s expected in South Carolina, are designs more unique, what sort of culture would influence their designs.
These are important things to realize.
