**For my most up-to-date happenings, check out my Tumblr page: sararaasch.tumblr.com.**

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Blast from the Past: Favorite Setting


This weekend I visited my alma mater (though I never did graduate from it...). And while I love the friends I made there, visiting that campus always feels -- odd. I don't miss it, and most of the memories I have of it aren't the greatest. Suffice to say that transferring to a new school wasn't a difficult decision when I made the transition last winter.

Anyway, during the 2.5 hour drive home (another reason I don't enjoy going back. Directions to my old school: drive until you feel the urge to get out of your car and scream OhmygoshSTOPGROWINGCORNOHIOBAAHHHHHH!! Ten minutes past that point, you're there.) I reflected on settings. One of my favorite parts of writing is creating new places, new worlds. Figuring out their atmospheres, their traditions, their cultures. Watching how the characters react to their worlds. And, of course, drawing insanely detailed maps of every little town/village/city/farmland in that world, simply because I can. I think I have control issues.

Of the various settings I've thrust characters into, my favorite place to return to is Yazoo Oxbow's steamboat in Stream Pirate. I love the magic of it, and the people who crew his boat make the entire thing homey and welcoming. If I could choose one place of mine to live, that'd be it.

What about you? Of all your settings, where would you choose to live?

4 comments:

K. M. Walton said...

Love Ireland - even set part of my MG novel there. The people are incredible, the landscape is absolutely magical (for real) and the history is captivating.

Natalie Whipple said...

Hmm, that's hard. You know how many I've created. I really love Coral's apartment. Also love Tosh's dojo. Ren's cabin in Sealed is up there too. And the the cemetery I'm working with in my WIP is pretty awesome too.

Mariah Irvin said...

Oh gosh, I can't think of one!

I mean, Piper lives where I used to live, but Jane lives in the Wild West...dangerous times 'n all.

lisa and laura said...

Our WIP is set in Europe and I think that's got to be my fave.