I apologize for the clunky question, but I did not want to spam threads. I hope this is okay.
I have a fondness for world building. The brands that appear in my drawings are recurrent and I have a lot of fun with the designs and logos and such.
The other day, during one of my bouts of impulse writing, I had a character mention one of those brands. Meanwhile, another character, roughly in the same time window, but across town was thinking about the same brand. Note that it was in dialogue and that these characters are quite close. On the second instance, the second character was actually thinking about the first.
One more thing: The characters were both in the proximity of a brand store.
Now, the questions are:
1- Does name dropping a brand, even if fictional, sound clunky and unnecessary, or does it serve well, both for building and characterization?
2- Do two characters, even if very close and with somewhat similar thought patterns, thinking about the same thing in different locations sound odd or perhaps ridiculous?
I would post the segment, but I'm not sure if that would be allowed in this forum section.
I have a fondness for world building. The brands that appear in my drawings are recurrent and I have a lot of fun with the designs and logos and such.
The other day, during one of my bouts of impulse writing, I had a character mention one of those brands. Meanwhile, another character, roughly in the same time window, but across town was thinking about the same brand. Note that it was in dialogue and that these characters are quite close. On the second instance, the second character was actually thinking about the first.
One more thing: The characters were both in the proximity of a brand store.
Now, the questions are:
1- Does name dropping a brand, even if fictional, sound clunky and unnecessary, or does it serve well, both for building and characterization?
2- Do two characters, even if very close and with somewhat similar thought patterns, thinking about the same thing in different locations sound odd or perhaps ridiculous?
I would post the segment, but I'm not sure if that would be allowed in this forum section.
