[quote="Alex Martin"]I'm 15 years old, and I need some help with ideas with marketing, even though I'm doing pretty well promoting in school.The book is science-fiction, called 'SHADOWS: THE NARLAN WARS'.Tons of action and suspense-Alex Martin[/quote]
[quote=purplejaz]For those of you who are using real citiesand towns as settings in your novels, will you be using actual businesses and such in your story? I'm setting my novel here, in Rapid City, South Dakota, and I wasn't sure whether I should use the actual bars and stores and restaurants or make up fake ones for the purposes of the story. To be honest, I'm not sure that it even matters, but I'd love to hear how everyone else is approaching this. Do you use them as is, or create entirely newones? Or do you use the businesses that exist and change their names? I suppose if you're going to go so far as to manufacture fake businesses you might as well just create an entire fictionaltown, huh?Anyways,enough over-analyzing on my part...tell me what yourplans are!-Brianna----------- Brianna[/quote]
- Brianna
I write local for about 98% of all my books, articles, and stories. Very local. Most of my stories never leave the tiny 7 mile long, 3 mile wide beach-strip town I live in. And in most cases, they never even got 100 feet away from my front yard: I actualy dismissed the fact that my house was there and stuck a big manor-house in the same spot! Because I live here, real events... like Ice Storm '98 and the ravenges of Hurrinaine Bob in '91, actualy make it ito my books. I end up writing entire stories based on local events. In my stories you'll often find the OOB Pier, Palace Playland, and Bill's Pizza . . . let's not forget the beach itself!Rarly do I write a story that does not include Old Orchard's Old Orchard Beach. Odd thing is, some 400 miles to my North is Arcadia National Park and it's famous Thunder Hole, and yet, in my stories, I've got the Thunder Hole note more than 500 yards away from the OOB Pier! And the White Mountains of New Hampshire? Yeah, I moved them too.Now to answer your question: How to handle writing about real places:
A lot depends on one question:
[quote=katiemorton]Since it's fiction, that means there are no rules.Run with it![/quote]
