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

[eretria.livejournal.com]

Because, really, honestly: How can you resist this? Vaznetti-fic? *rubs hands*

a) Because it's a given:

Heathrow (Terminal Three) : Krycek

And / Or:
b)
Puerto Vallarta and the Costa Allegre, Mexico (from the Gringo perspective): Wolverine (with possible leaning toward/ mentioning of Rogue) Let's see how the grumpy one deals with something that's not Canadian winter. How he deals with the ocean.

[vaznetti]

Ooh. I'm going for the latter choice, I think. (My parents' town is full of Canadians trying to get away from the winter, so this will be pretty straightforward to set up.)