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Like many writers, I use real-life settings as a backdrop for much of my fiction. It makes it easier to visualize a place since the buildings are already designed and built, the trees are already grown. Sure, I may do some redesigning -- shrinking a five-bedroom mansion to a cramped Victory home -- rip up carpet and take a grinder to the floor boards or transplant a hornet's nest into a maple forest. It is the action that you place into this setting that can shape and reform the real.
I'm having some fun mapping the real settings that Girl #3 takes place in. Here are a few:
- The Soul Tree was a real "tree" that my BGF and I used to hang out at while in high school
- Syd's Hiding Place is situated in a real forest
- As for the Porcupine Tree, I'll leave that up for interpretation
Watch the Girl #3 Googlemap as it grows.
Author Nichole McGill blogs at http://www.nicholemcgill.com and will be reading at the Mimico Centennial Public Library on October 28th in Toronto.
