Writing challenge

[vaznetti]

One of the things that can make a fic stand out for me is a clear sense of place--the level of detail that moves a locale from generic to specific. And that's something that I have a lot of trouble with: I tend to indicate place with a few sketchy details, and I don't usually set stories in places where I've spent significant amounts of time. I want to try to do something about this, so I'm offering the following. Under the cuts are (first) a list of places I've lived, or spent enough time to find them familiar, and (second) a list of fandoms I write or would write. Pick a character, pick a location, and I'll try to write you a scene.

Places
San Francisco
SE Portland, OR
Chicago (Hyde Park)
New Haven (Yale)
New York (kind of, mostly the East Village)
Oxford
Cambridge
Halifax, NS
Heathrow (Terminal Three)
Puerto Vallarta and the Costa Allegre, Mexico (from the Gringo perspective)



Fandoms I write: Alias, X-Files
Fandoms I'd like to try: 24, Highlander, BtVS, Angel, Homicide, XMen (movieverse), Stargate SG-1. If you request something in one of these, you might have to look it over to make sure I haven't gone horribly wrong somewhere.


I figure that this will give me some structured writing to do over the vacation.

Comments

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely-- and, coincidentally, something I've been toying with as well...but you'll see very soon, if possibly post-Exam.

I'd love San Francisco & Alias; alternatively, Oxford & BtVS. I only remember the co-op, Jesus College, and the way to and fro well, but hey...

[vaznetti]

You need to name a character, or two, I guess--I have absolutely no capacity for independant thought at the moment. Please?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Know the feeling.

Alias: Sydney and Sloane-- or Sydney and Will because I love him and miss him so much.

Buffy: Giles and/or Buffy and/or Spike.