Trammel: Scent of a City
You won't find any April Fool's jokes here. I'm not that funny. :)
I'm just settling in to the idea of a new month. Next week, I'll be visiting anahcrow. Other than that, it's just lots of dayjob and writing goals.
Right now, one of the big foci in my writing is setting details. The part of Trammel we're writing right now is set in Detroit, and in a couple locations in Ohio, and I'm working hard to make sure the unique aspects of those locations really come through in the text. It's not just street names and place names, it's more about the feel of a place, architecture, sounds and smells... Is the night quiet, or noisy -- if it's noisy, is it with birds and animals or cars and sirens? And it's not like I can take any part of Detroit and extrapolate out -- I have to focus on the specific area of Detroit we're working in, because every neighborhood of Detroit has a different feel to it, different sights and sounds.
Earlier in the book, we were in Atlantic City. Though both Detroit and Atlantic City are places with casinos (and therefore tourists), Atlantic City has a totally different feel to it, and we've worked hard to make the two settings very distinct. Different smells, different architecture, different sounds in the middle of the night.
When you're writing, how much do you pay attention to setting details? When you're reading, do you notice setting details, do they help the world feel more real?
I'm just settling in to the idea of a new month. Next week, I'll be visiting anahcrow. Other than that, it's just lots of dayjob and writing goals.
Right now, one of the big foci in my writing is setting details. The part of Trammel we're writing right now is set in Detroit, and in a couple locations in Ohio, and I'm working hard to make sure the unique aspects of those locations really come through in the text. It's not just street names and place names, it's more about the feel of a place, architecture, sounds and smells... Is the night quiet, or noisy -- if it's noisy, is it with birds and animals or cars and sirens? And it's not like I can take any part of Detroit and extrapolate out -- I have to focus on the specific area of Detroit we're working in, because every neighborhood of Detroit has a different feel to it, different sights and sounds.
Earlier in the book, we were in Atlantic City. Though both Detroit and Atlantic City are places with casinos (and therefore tourists), Atlantic City has a totally different feel to it, and we've worked hard to make the two settings very distinct. Different smells, different architecture, different sounds in the middle of the night.
When you're writing, how much do you pay attention to setting details? When you're reading, do you notice setting details, do they help the world feel more real?