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lizardbeth) wrote2010-10-22 09:17 pm
lizardbeth) wrote2010-10-22 09:17 pm
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Planning NaNo
I've decided to do The Other Side as my NaNo project (it's shiny! -- I told you I have a problem with that before, but if I have to write like the wind it's better to grab that shiny, I figure).
Anyway under the cut is some pondering about the setting.
But actually prepping it to write, raises a few issues. For instance, I have to actually decide WHERE to set it. It would be easier to set it here -- I know the area well, and there is a certain advantage to knowing the workings of law enforcement and stuff like that. There are ways to make it claustrophic, even while acknowledging it's spread out to hell and back, I think. There's a certain sameness about every ten miles, or so -- the specifics might change, but a lot of the stores are the same, too. So I can see that maybe from an immortal perspective it could certainly build the impression that humans are ... interchangeable.
BUT. On the other hand.
It's a very new city. Our idea of "history" tends to be anything before 1950. Although, on the other other hand, maybe that would be a draw for immortals to settle there? It's new, it's different? Things move, there's a mix of people? There's other beautiful people, so they won't stand out as much? lol.
It's easier for Terrell to be head crime boss in a smaller city. Here, well, he'd have lots of competition. Not necessarily a problem, as long as I keep it in mind - but he'd be only one of several.
I like writing about snow, since we don't have any. :(
To LA, or not? I was also thinking of Chicago, which I know at least a little. Or somewhere else you think would fit better?
So any thoughts, those of you who read the summary?
Anyway under the cut is some pondering about the setting.
But actually prepping it to write, raises a few issues. For instance, I have to actually decide WHERE to set it. It would be easier to set it here -- I know the area well, and there is a certain advantage to knowing the workings of law enforcement and stuff like that. There are ways to make it claustrophic, even while acknowledging it's spread out to hell and back, I think. There's a certain sameness about every ten miles, or so -- the specifics might change, but a lot of the stores are the same, too. So I can see that maybe from an immortal perspective it could certainly build the impression that humans are ... interchangeable.
BUT. On the other hand.
It's a very new city. Our idea of "history" tends to be anything before 1950. Although, on the other other hand, maybe that would be a draw for immortals to settle there? It's new, it's different? Things move, there's a mix of people? There's other beautiful people, so they won't stand out as much? lol.
It's easier for Terrell to be head crime boss in a smaller city. Here, well, he'd have lots of competition. Not necessarily a problem, as long as I keep it in mind - but he'd be only one of several.
I like writing about snow, since we don't have any. :(
To LA, or not? I was also thinking of Chicago, which I know at least a little. Or somewhere else you think would fit better?
So any thoughts, those of you who read the summary?