Having said all that, one of the important locations I used in Storm Rising is somewhere I know very well. The caravan/camping site that Abi and Gideon visit, is one that my family has been staying at for many, many years. My husband used to stay in the area as a child, and we've been taking our own children there regularly for the last fourteen years. It's set half way along the beautiful Rhossili Bay, in South Wales and is the perfect place to fire the imagination and set stories running around in your head.
When I was younger I was always hearing the words, "write about what you know." This led me to think I needed to set all my stories in places I had actually visited and knew well, and give my characters jobs and life styles I had experienced. Time has told me that although this can be good advice up to a point, if you stick to it too rigorously it has a tendency to stifle the imagination. Obviously it's very annoying when you read about a place in a book that you know well, but that the author has clearly not researched very well, and makes some heinous errors! I can be very pedantic about stuff like that - ask my family! But with the advent of the internet it's far easier to set your story somewhere new and exciting without making any crass mistakes. I hope I've managed that with my scenes in New York. Hooray for Google maps! Having said all that, one of the important locations I used in Storm Rising is somewhere I know very well. The caravan/camping site that Abi and Gideon visit, is one that my family has been staying at for many, many years. My husband used to stay in the area as a child, and we've been taking our own children there regularly for the last fourteen years. It's set half way along the beautiful Rhossili Bay, in South Wales and is the perfect place to fire the imagination and set stories running around in your head. Comments are closed.
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