Camp Nano Report
Apr. 5th, 2013 06:23 pmNot much added to the word count yesterday. Not because I didn't work on my story, but just because not all story-work involves adding words to the text. I spent most of my time brainstorming the settings of my various scenes. Trying to think outside the box of the first draft in regards to settings. No use plodding out words to a second draft if after you're done, the story still feels flat.
And then, as if to validate that decision, I read this entry by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
swan_tower over at Bookview Cafe:
http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2013/04/05/overwriting-the-world/
It's about setting in urban fantasy stories. My story is science fiction, but it reads like urban fantasy and definitely follows the tropes of urban fantasy in most regards, including setting the story in a large, very real city, in this case, San Francisco. San Francisco is one of those cities that sparks images and assumptions in the head of readers, and you want to take advantage of what's interesting and mundane and unique about that city to ground a story that veers into the fantastic, in order to make the fantastic come alive for all that realistic detail.
1780 / 10000 words. 18% done!
And then, as if to validate that decision, I read this entry by
swan_tower over at Bookview Cafe:http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2013/04/05/overwriting-the-world/
It's about setting in urban fantasy stories. My story is science fiction, but it reads like urban fantasy and definitely follows the tropes of urban fantasy in most regards, including setting the story in a large, very real city, in this case, San Francisco. San Francisco is one of those cities that sparks images and assumptions in the head of readers, and you want to take advantage of what's interesting and mundane and unique about that city to ground a story that veers into the fantastic, in order to make the fantastic come alive for all that realistic detail.
