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Sorry this one’s a bit late… Saturday kinda just slipped by without me noticing it… which is really lame. Anyway!
This weeks discussion question is “Describing scenery”. How do you tend to describe the countryside your characters live in? Do you base it on your local landscape, make something up, or base it on a geographical location (i.e. Dwarves swimming in the Nile! Sorry, couldn’t resist, fantasy writers!)?
My locations are ALWAYS the local landscape. Our North Carolinian landscape is rather... striking. Crooked crags, thick evergreen forests, willow ponds, muddy rivers, clear brooks, thick brush, smelly swamps, HUGE mountains (I don't live in the mountains, but I've seen them before. They take your breath away.), savannahs, ridges, plains and hills, we've pretty much got it all. And it's all perfect. Our beaches are not so nice, though. I don't know what a real shore looks like. If y'all can tell me what a real beach looks like, I'd be very happy.
Um...it really depends. Like Barrie said, NC has just about everything in it, and, living in such scenery really helps you, but there are some things that I have not seen in real life, only in pictures, and sometimes those are my settings. For example; right now I'm writing a story where it is VERY COLD. Tons of snow and ice everywhere. Because I haven't lived this, I just have to describe how my imagination sees it.
Blessings,
Snicket
I am not exactly a fantasy writer... more like, real life situation in an allegory, but not fantasy version with dragons and all that, though maybe book 2 has some of that in...
Well, I describe scenery from alsorts of different perspectives - I have lived in Scotland, England and Wales, some of the scenery I describe is rather Scottish, sometimes English, sometimes Welsh and well, mixed up from all the places I have been to in my life... like in ruined castles, I know exactly what they are like, I have explored one to bits and decided to write a scene where Philip falls into a ruined castle and discovers a way in, in other words, if Philip had been called Izzy and the castle's name the same name as the castle we found, that part of the book would have been true... so, I, well, describe scenery like the scenery I have known in real life... its easy to describe, and I can describe that more vividly
bye for now
Chezdak ( Lydia Kirrenly )
I base my scenery from all over the place. I was born on an island in the wild of Washington state, so dark forests and seashores fascinate me. Sometimes I make up my own landscapes but usually it includes mountains and rolling fields, woods and little villages along the sea coastline. As for describing, write by a window! I once sat at the RC in the office and wrote a bit in one of my novels, and just described what I saw outside. Things like mists, wind, trees that look black in the shadows, and weird sunsets inspire me. I also have an obsession for big cities like NYC, so some of my stuffins are set in that sort of environment. I've lived my whole live in various tiny-towns, though, and the inspiration for the descriptions of Dale in the second Inklings novel actually come from looking outside the window!
~PIP~/Kip
Well, this is really weird and I'm not sure why I do this, but I look up pictures of whatever I'm trying to discribe on the internet and then stare at the picture for ages and then finally write down several discriptions and see which one sounds best...its kinda weird, but it works!
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