Entries tagged with sense of place

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This has been a day of false starts, but now that

spican is back from her holiday, I decided to brush the edges of this and post it -- long ago, when I offered the sense of place stories, she requested Marita Covarrubias in Mexico. Here it is:

( Morning )

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Sense of place challenge, 1

For

kristen_k2,

spican and

muridae_x, Krycek in New Haven. I couldn't bring myself to send him to Yale, and I'd like

spican to attest that I really can write Krycek stories that are not grim as death.

( untitled x-files snippet, 925 words, PG-13 )

I wanted to put Dee in, just for Kristen, but this was a good end-point.

I'll figure out a title later on; this is (pretty obviously) without beta, and so please do point out errors or inconsistencies. And Krycek doesn't always know the name of things.

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It looks like I'm going to have to write a massive crossover set in Terminal Three (scroll through the comments and you'll see what I mean). Maybe I should have offered to do O'Hare as well; I already have half a scene from an abandoned story set in Charles De Gaulle (worst airport ever) somewhere on my hardrive.

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Writing challenge

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 )

( fandoms )

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