tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post1815677987188050147..comments2023-11-14T21:31:35.805-06:00Comments on J.F. Juzwik's Blog: Location, Location, LocationJoycehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-7787361092987883722009-02-01T19:57:00.000-06:002009-02-01T19:57:00.000-06:00Sherey, you really said it. "know your location a...Sherey, you really said it. "know your location and learn it well enough to live there without maps".<BR/><BR/>As writers, we want everybody to read our stories and novels, and that means everybody from everywhere. All it is going to take is one reader from the city we use and mess up on the streets or bridge placement, then comes the best (or worst, depending) publicity, that of 'word of mouth', and the potential is there to lose a whole crowd of everybody's out there.<BR/><BR/>I use made up towns and so on, and I can only hope none of the names I use EVER really correspond to a real one that even barely resembles mine!Joycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275503653927579472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497164028438533435.post-25709650951717095982009-01-26T01:06:00.000-06:002009-01-26T01:06:00.000-06:00I so know what you mean. It's one of the reasons I...I so know what you mean. It's one of the reasons I've spent years researching the holy lands because I can't actually go there but I know I have to get it right even if my subject is set 2000 years ago. People know their regions and they are turned off by writers who don't do their homework. The movie Harry and the Hendersons was a fun family movie for my girls but it irked me something fierce because they moved around freeway signs and the geography of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest and as much as I enjoy other parts of the movie I generally skip the whole thing. Yes, know your location and learn it well enough to live there without maps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com