Wednesday, June 11th: Write In: Region

Good morning everyone. It is time for the morning writing exercise. Now if you remember from last week June is all about regions. We are taking the same scene, a scene we all wrote last week based on the same set of story parameters. Do you have yours? If you need a mental jog, or you missed last Wednesday, here are the basic bones…

Kevin sees some sort of calamity getting ready to face the place he calls home. Others either do not see it coming or think the impact will not be as dire as he believes. He has a piece of information that he believes shows he is right. No one believes him because they don’t want to believe him. So he decides to set some things in place to help everyone out.

Now with this basic list of elements everyone created a story Or a snippet of one. If you didn’t play along with last week’s game, you might want to take a few minutes and create it now. We’ll wait.

…Everyone ready? Good.

So we have our general story. Last week we took that general story and then we altered it’s region. Last week we took it to the sea side and added in all the details necessary for that setting. This week we have a new locale.

Today’s Region: A Mountain Town

The details are as always your own, but think about the location as another character. Make the reader see and feel the location moving and breathing in the story (so to speak.) What does the air smell and feel like. What is the noticeable wildlife? How do the people dress? How does it differ from the sea side town? Both could be tourist destinations but do they get the same sort of tourists? Neither could be tourist hotspots but isolated towns where strangers stand out as though they were painted in neon. Think about the town, how it looks, feels and smells. Imagine moving through it, either on foot or in a car. Are the roads straight, curvy, narrow or wide? Go for flora or fauna.

If this is an environment that is completely alien to you, take a moment and google mountain towns and take a look at the details that pop up. The goal is to not only work on descriptions, but to see how your story shifts depending on where you place it. So have fun with it and let us see the town and its impact on your story line. Change what you need to fit the scene and as always, happy writing.