What places are we writing about?

In and around the Richmond, VA area, twenty years in the future.

I was going to set my story in Scotland, but I realized I couldn't get the accents right and I had a much better grasp of southern culture because I've spent a few years in South Carolina (as opposed to a few glorious if cloudy months in Edinburgh). Currently set in small town SC with a few excursions into Atlanta, although down the line I'm planning on moving things to Charleston and possibly New Orleans.

As an added bonus, it means Waffle House can appear in my fantasy novel.

After a two+ year hiatus, I'm finally getting back to Ruby Valley, Nevada, in the heydays of Fort Ruby and the brief history of the Overland Express. 1860s... and hopefully back to being around Absolute Write more regularly! :waves:

12th century England - my first attempt at writing anything historical!

Seventeenth Century France during the reign of Louis XIV. Set in Versailles, Paris and Rouen.

I have a story coming out later this year set in the time of Louis XIII which takes place in Paris, Chartres, and the road to Rennes - it's a tale of the Musketeers set just after the initial book.

19th Century London and Oxfordshire (near "Henley-Upon-Bloody-Thames", as one of my characters so charmingly put it).

Frontier U.S., around 1850, a travel tale extending from the Midwest across the west to California.

caw

blacbird, sounds interesting. Are we talking '49er's? Something of that sort?

(I have a character in one WIP who spends a spell in Kansas during Bleeding Kansas--but I more or less skip over it and tell that part of the story through brief flashbacks. I know, I know. I skipped the excitement of Bleeding Kansas to bring him to the peaceful Sea Islands of Georgia. The point is, I've definitely thought about maybe going to that time and place with him for a short story or novella; something of a travel adventure.)

Ah, I'm also doing a short story series based on Z Special Group, set in the Pacific Theater of WWII. So far, we've visited the islands of Timor and Komodo in the Indonesian archipelago with short visits to the Northern Territories in Australia to rest/refit/train. Next story will be set on Java.

Richard White said:

Ah, I'm also doing a short story series based on Z Special Group, set in the Pacific Theater of WWII. So far, we've visited the islands of Timor and Komodo in the Indonesian archipelago with short visits to the Northern Territories in Australia to rest/refit/train. Next story will be set on Java.

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Sounds interesting! (It's Northern Territory -- just the one!)

angeliz2k said:

blacbird, sounds interesting. Are we talking '49er's? Something of that sort?

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Not exactly 49ers, but a group made of a pair of itinerant con men and two fugitives, ultimately headed to California via wagon train. They do wind up in the gold country.

caw

A village in rural Dorset (England) in 1830. And a couple of flashbacks in Winchester.

I'm writing about a place that no longer exists -- the Kankakee Marshlands in Northwest Indiana. It used to be the Everglades of the North, but then the dredged the river and drained the marshes. Now it's just farmland. My MC moves from there to Greenwich Village New York.

blacbird said:

Not exactly 49ers, but a group made of a pair of itinerant con men and two fugitives, ultimately headed to California via wagon train. They do wind up in the gold country.

caw

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Con men in the old west? Sounds like somebody's gonna get tarred and feathered and road outa town on a rail

autumnleaf said:

Also, just for fun, what location is your work set in?

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Ancient Egypt, Middle Kindom, Khahheperre Senuseret

Present MIP is set in Pittsburgh, PA.

Next one in set in Ireland.