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"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" - Toni Morrison
New creatures in stories tend to share a common characteristic:
Some aspect of them resembles an animal, or multiple animals, from real life. They are often a combination of existing elements drawn from nature.
Designing them this way can give creatures both a familiar and foreign feel. It also makes the reader able to visualize them because they have a point of reference for their design.
As an example, look at the Kaiju from Pacific Rim and see what characteristics they share with real-world creatures:
Knifehead - He has skin that resembles that of a rhinoceros, limbs that are styled after those of an insect, and a head that is reminiscent of a shark.
Leatherback - His body is clearly modeled after a gorilla, but his features are reptilian.
Otachi - She’s a dragon-like Kaiju with wings and basic body anatomy resembling a bat. She even has a bat nose!
Now, obviously writing requires a bit more work than film when introducing new creatures, but it’s still doable.
If the creature belongs in the world, have your characters treat it as such. If I were to reference a giraffe, I would expect everyone to know what that is. If your character were to see or reference a creature that he/she knows, but the reader doesn’t know, make it seems familiar to the character and then provide the reader with a visual description of the creature to make it not only stick in their minds, but also seem normal. Feel free to relate your description back to real life animals with comparisons (simile or metaphor).
If the creature isn’t a normal part of your character’s world, you can describe them in the same manner, but make sure your character doesn’t react to them as we would a pigeon on the sidewalk. They should be surprised, bothered, worried, or fearful of this new creature in their path.
I personally tend to draw out my creature ideas before I try to describe them. If you have that skill, I recommend doing so. if you can’t draw and you know someone who wouldn’t mind drawing for you, then use that to your advantage. There are also a ton of wonderful artists who would love creature commissions if you have the cash.
Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world’s population) and covering 6.5 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq mi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.
In its approximately 12 centuries of existence, Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to a classical republic to an increasingly autocratic empire. Through conquest and assimilation, it came to dominate Southern and Western Europe, Asia Minor, North Africa, and parts of Northern and Eastern Europe, Rome was preponderant throughout the Mediterranean region and was one of the most powerful entities of the ancient world. It is often grouped into “Classical Antiquity” together with ancient Greece, and their similar cultures and societies are known as the Greco-Roman world. [x]
Hughes, Kristina - Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England
Jackson, Lee - Daily Life in Victorian London
Mayhew, Henry et al - The London Underworld in the Victorian Period
Mitchell, Sally - Daily Life In Victorian England
Pool, Daniel - What Jane Austin Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
Stevens, Mark - Life in the Victorian Assylum
E V E R Y D A Y L I F E
Popular Names in the Victorian Era
Cassel’s Household Guide (1869) - basically an instruction manual from 1869 telling you how to do everything from making tea to picking a job.
Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management: A Guide to Cookery In All Branches (1907) - Lots of period recipes, plus information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and under house-maids, Lady’s-maid, Maid-of-all-work, Laundry-maid, Nurse and nurse-maid, Monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc.
The Victorian Era-Society
Appendix D: English Society in the 1840s
Class Structure of Victorian England
Victorian England Social Hierarchy
Social Restrictions in the Victorian Era
(Excerpts From) Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England (Regarding Broken Engagements and Premarital Sex)
Five Filthy Things About Victorian England
1841: A window on Victorian Britain
The Demography of Victorian England and Wales
What was life like for children in Victorian London?
Historical Essays: The Victorian Child
The Life of Infants and Children in Victorian London
The Inequality Between Genders During the Victorian Era in England
Women as “the Sex” During the Victorian Era
Writers Dreamtools - Decades - 1840
Victorianisms – Adventures in Victorian Slang
56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using
A Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words (1859)
Victorian slang - a guide to sexual Victorian terms
A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England: To which is Now First Incorporated the Supplement, by Samuel Pegge (1839)
Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs (1844)
British Slang - Lower Class and Underworld
Lee Jackson - Dictionary of Victorian London
Domestic Violence in Victorian England
The Victorian wife-beating epidemic
How to Survive and Thrive in the Victorian Era
19th-century Radiators and Heating Systems
The Picture of Dorian Gray; a mirror of the Victorian Era, era of Hypocrisy
The Victorian Supernatural
Politics of Victorian England
Dualism & Dualities - The Victorian Age
Black Victorians: History we’ve been taught claims we’ve only ever been slaves
Video: Mini-lecture - London’s Black history
Flowers - Victorian Bazaar (The Language Of Flowers)
Victorian Funeral Customs and Superstitions
Racism and Anti-Irish Prejudice in Victorian England
M E D I C I N E & I L L N E S S
Victorian Health
Medical Developments In Britain During The Nineteenth Century
Hospitals
The Entire Case Records from a Victorian Asylum Are Now Online
Victorian psychiatric patients’ grim fate in hellish 1800s hospitals
Locating Convalescence in Victorian England
Sanitation and Disease in Rich and Poor
19th Century Diseases
Death & Childhood in Victorian England
Health and hygiene in the 19th century
Disease in the Victorian city: extended version
Musing on Illness in the Victorian Era
Female hysteria / Vapours
Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety
The History of Women’s Mental Illness
Anorexia: It’s Not A New Disease
Rebel Girls: How Victorian Girls Used Anorexia to Conform and Revolt
Warburg’s tincture
Apothecaries and Medicine in the Victorian Era
The Creepy Factor in Victorian Medicine
Medical Advancements: Victorian Era Prosthetics
The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement
food poisoning in the Victorian era
Typhus (Gaol Fever)
L A W , G O V E R N M E N T & C R I M E
Crime in Victorian England
The 222 Victorian crimes that would get a man hanged
Juvenile crime in the 19th century
Victorian women criminals’ records show harsh justice of 19th century
Organised Crime in “The Mysteries of London” (1844)
Dickens and the ‘Criminal Class’
Victorian prisons and punishments
Victorian Prison Conditions
The Development of a Police Force
Life in Nineteenth-Century Prisons as a Context for Great Expectations
Gaols
Sentences and Punishments
Courtroom Experience in Victorian England at the time of Great Expectations
Courts of Justice - Victorian Crime and Punishment
Victorian Criminal Laws: Barbarism and Progress
Child prisoners in Victorian times and the heroes of change
Victorian Legislation: a Timeline
Women and the Law in Victorian England
The Corn Laws
The Corn Laws in Victorian England
The Anti-Corn-Law League
The Corn Laws and their Repeal 1815-1846
The Poor Laws During the Victorian Era
Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England
Bastardy and Baby Farming in Victorian England
Baby Farmers and Angelmakers: Childcare in 19th Century
C L I M A T E , W E A T H E R & E N V I R O N M E N T
The Climate of London (Luke Howard, 1810-1820 - PDF)
The Illustrated London Almanack 1847
Victorian London - Weather - Fog
F A S H I O N
Victorian Fashion Terms A-M
Victorian Fashion Terms N-Z
Early Victorian Undergarments; an introduction, and about silk
Victorian Violence, Part Four ~ Elegant Brutality for Ladies and Gentlemen of Discernment
10 Deadly Street Gangs Of The Victorian Era
Early Victorian Handguns; Part 1
Early Victorian Handguns; Part 2
Early Victorian Handguns; Part 3
Pistol Duelling during the Early Victorian Era
Cane Guns: Victorian Concealed Firearms of Gentlemen & Cads
M A N N E R S & E T T I Q U E T T E
Manners & Tone of Good Society (This is a Victorian book on manners, written by an unnamed ‘Member Of The Aristocracy,’ and is available in full to read and covers a ton of ground, everything from leaving cards and morning calls to introductions and titles, and etiquette for many different types of parties and events).
The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society (1875)
Manners for the Victorian Gentleman
Victorian Dancing Etiquette
A Checklist of 19th Century Etiquette
Social Rituals During The Victorian Era
An Online Dating Guide to Courting in the Victorian Era
Calling Cards and the Etiquette of Paying Calls
Morning Calls and Formal Visits
A Time Traveller’s Guide to Victorian Era Tea Etiquette
Traveling Etiquette and Tips for Victorian Women
Equestrian Etiquette and Attire in the Victorian Era
Etiquette Faux Pas and Other Misconceptions About Afternoon Tea
Victorian Table Etiquette
Victorian London - Publications - Etiquette and Household Advice Manuals
Etiquette Rules for Dinner Parties from a Victorian Magazine
The Etiquette of Proper Introductions in Victorian Times
Forms Of Introductions And Salutations. Etiquette Of Introductions
Etiquette for the Victorian Child
Victorian and Edwardian Mourning Etiquette
Etiquette Of Carriage-Riding
Victorian Etiquette - Shopping
U P P E R C L A S S & N O B I L I T Y
Royalty, Nobility, Gentry, & Titles; A Matter of Victorian Ranks & Precedence
Order of Precedence in England and Wales
The Victorian Era - The Debutante Tradition
The Gentleman - The Victorian Web
“Coming Out” During the Early Victorian Era; about debutantes
The London Season
The London Season - The History Box
T H E M I D D L E C L A S S
The middle classes: etiquette and upward mobility
The Rise of the Victorian Middle Class
The Victorian Man and the Middle Class Household - Domesticity as an Ideal
Middle Class Life in the Late 19th Century
A Woman
’s World: How Afternoon Tea Defined
and Hindered Victorian Middle Class Women
Working Women in the Victorian Middle-Class
The ASBO teens of Victorian Britain: How middle-class children terrorized parks by shouting at old ladies, chasing sheep and vandalizing trees
“A Dangerous Kind:” Domestic Violence and The Victorian Middle Class [PDF]
Eligible Bachelors: Suitors and Courtship in the Lower Middle Class
T H E W O R K I N G C L A S S
The working classes and the poor
Poverty and the working classes (links to relevant articles)
Dirty Jobs of the Victorian Era …
The Working-Class Peace Movement
in Victorian England
Victorian Child Labor and the Conditions They Worked In
History of Working Class Mothers in Victorian England
Income vs Expenditure in Working-Class Victorian England
What about the Workers? - 1830s - 1840s
T H E S E R V A N T C L A S S
Household management and Servants of the Victorian Era
Victorian Domestic Servant Hierarchy and Wages
Domestic Servants
Serving the house: The cost of Victorian domestic servants
Domestic Servants and their Duties
Precedence in the Servants Hall
The Servant’s Quarters in 19th Century Country Houses Like Downton Abbey
The REAL story of Britain’s servant class
Servants: A life below stairs
The Green Baize Door: Dividing Line Between Servant and Master
The Victorian Domestic Servant by Trevor May: A Review
T H E U N D E R C L A S S (T H E P O O R)
The Underclass (or the Submerged Class)
Poverty in Victorian England: Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
Down and Out in Victorian London
Poverty and the Poor | Dickens & the Victorian City
The Victorian Poorhouse
Poorhouses
Victorian Workhouses
Entering and Leaving the Workhouse
The Poor Law
The Poor Law Amendment Act
The New Poor Law - Victorian Crime and Punishment
London’s Ragamuffins
I N T E R S E C T I O N A L I T Y (Of Class, Gender, Race, and Ability)
Class, Gender, and the Asylum
The Impact of Social Class Divisions on the Women of Victorian England
The Daily Life of Disabled People in Victorian England
W O R K &
Early and Mid-Victorian Attitudes towards Victorian
Working-Class Prostitution, with a Special Focus on
London
Prostitution and the Nineteenth Century: In Search of the ‘Great Social Evil’
Attitudes toward sexuality and sexual identity
Victorian slang - a guide to sexual Victorian terms
O T H E R M A S T E R P O S T S
Writing Research - Victorian Era by ghostflowerdreams
How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era by keir-reviews
Legit’s Historical Fashion Masterpost by legit-writing-tips
Susanna Ives - Many Research Links (covers Regency Era - Victorian Era)
Middle Ages (or Medieval period), lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: Antiquity, Medieval period, and Modern period. The Medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, the High, and the Late Middle Ages. [1] [2]
People like writing about war, but they rarely like writing
about the aftermath. And I think that’s a shame, because sometimes writing
about the aftermath can be at least as interesting. There’s a lot you can do
with what happens after the fighting is done, when people need to rebuild, when
they need to find who they are and where they fit in a world that is different
than it was when they began.
Write about interpersonal
relationships, and how they changed.
Write about how
people view themselves and the actions they needed to take.
Write about rebuilding—physically,
socially, mentally, emotionally.
Write about the choices
people made because they thought they were never going to need to face the
consequences.
Write about the emotional
toll that war takes, that constant violence takes, that never being able to
relax takes.
Write about the physical
toll that war takes, about the people who come back missing limbs or
neurons.
Write about the people
who lost everyone they knew and still have to live with themselves.
Write about the people
who lost everything, their homes, their land, the cities, about them
finding new places to call home, or not.
Write about the people who are tasked with creating a new world, and the decisions
they have to make.
Write about the people
who only knew war, who were born after the war started and grew up with
only that, who now need to figure out who they are in a world that has no place
for them anymore.
Write about the people
who were heroes, who know how to be heroes but don’t know how to be people.
Write about the people
who weren’t heroes, who were hated, who were disgraced.
Write about the people
who didn’t fight in the war because they couldn’t, because they weren’t
physically capable or because society said they weren’t suitable.
Write about the people
who fought on the losing side, who sacrificed everything and still lost and
now need to rebuild with nothing, who are painted as monsters when they need no
worse than the side that won.
Write about the trials,
for people who committed war crimes, for people who took advantage of what was
going on to do what they wanted.
Write about the weapons
that are finding their way into the hands of children, cheap and easy to use,
because they were left behind when the soldiers packed up and left.
Write about the landmines,
the unexploded ordinances, the things that governments forgot were there or
just didn’t care.
Write about ten years
later, or twenty, or thirty, or one, or six months, or the next day, about
what people do when the adrenaline of victory or defeat subsides and they’re
left with a world that they no longer understand, that they no longer know,
because they spent so long trying to destroy the old world that they forgot
that they would have to live in the new one.
Write about the next
generation, who grew up with parents who flinched at loud noises and cousins
who could remember air raid sirens, who grew up doing drills they didn’t
understand because the people who made the drills couldn’t forget that one day
they might have been necessary.
Write about the women
who stayed behind because they had no choice, about the women who stayed
behind because they wanted to, about the women who couldn’t stay behind because
there was no behind, because everywhere was a warzone and they were soldiers
because everyone was a soldier.
Write about the children
who trained for a war that ended before they were old enough to take up
arms, where all they know is violence, not peace, how to destroy a city but not
how to build one or how to run one.
Write about career
soldiers who no longer have a career because the war is over, there’s
peace, and so they find work for the highest bidder, for the person most
willing to give them a knife or a gun and throw them wherever a little muscle
and a lot of violence is needed.
Write about the people
who did research on things nobody should ever research, who discovered
things they could never speak about, who rationalized what they did as science
while knowing it wasn’t.
Write about everyday
people coping with everything that happened, with things they saw and
things they did and things they knew that they wouldn’t wish on their worst
enemy.
Okay, so remember in our first World-Building post where I listed about fifteen things that a fantasy writer should take into consideration when building their story’s world? I did promise you all that I would be making individual posts that focus more on every component. It’s easier this way so you can get a better idea.
Here is a list of questions you should ask yourself about the government of your story’s world.
1. Who is their leader/ruler/king?
2. How are they chosen? It can be by strength, birthright, or some kind of contest/election/competition.
3. Who makes the laws? Is it the people, the ruler, or the ruler’s subordinates? Or do the people think that the laws are already set by the gods?
4. Who enforces the laws? Is there a police force, patrol, or guards?
5. What happens if a law is broken? Jail, stocks, death, eye-for-an-eye? Do the people who were hurt in the crime decide on the punishment?
6. Are law breakers considered scum or hailed as rebels?
7. How powerful is the ruler? Does the ruler humbly serve the people or are they a dictator? Is the ruler’s power limited by something else (think about the checks and balances system in America).
8. How big of a role does government play for your people? If your people put God first above everything, then maybe the government isn’t as important in your story as God/gods. If your people do not break laws and are generally peaceful, maybe the government isn’t that important either. Think about these things before you ask yourself all the questions from 1-7. Maybe, depending on the relevance of government in your society, you don’t have to answer all these questions.
I am writing a story in which my characters live in a fictional town that I have created but I am a visual person so I was wondering if you know some website where we can create the plan of a fake town? I hope that was clear, thank you!
Of course! According to Rachel Aaron/Rachel Bach of This Blog Is a A Ploy, you can now use Google Maps to make custom maps which is great news for all authors. “Being an author practically guarantees you will struggle with real life details like travel distance at some point in your book. If you’re writing about a real city, the bar is even higher. Even if you’re writing about your own city, a map can be a life saver just for keeping everything straight in your head,” says Bach; you can read more about her discovery and the How-To Tutorial [here].
Here are some other sites I’ve found that I hope might help:
sunshineboi94 asked: How important is location to a story? I’m asking about specific location, not setting. I know landscape, climate, and environment can all be important details but is it necessary to give an exact location to your story? Personally, I feel like it makes it less relatable, but I could benefit from some outside opinion. Also, if you are to give it a location does it have to be a real place? Not a fantasyland but a fake place such as Mayberry?
Figuring out your setting is a little frightening; it can often feel like you’re locking yourself into a decision. Location details are important as they often inform your plot and characters and create the story’s backdrop, so it’s worth it to explore this topic.
Whether or not you decide to use a “real place” (such as New York City) or a fictional place (such as Fictionville) is a complicated decision, so here are a few things to keep in mind.
First, let’s talk about the advantages of real locations.
No world-building required. New York already exists. In this circumstance, you don’t have to worry about laying out an entire location. This gives you liberty in the sense that you can spend energy and time on other parts of your story, but it has limitations that will be explored later in this article.
Strong cultural roots. As something of an extension of the world-building point, when you use a place that really exists, all of the information about that point is at your fingertips. This means research, but it also means that nothing can slip through the cracks. If you want to refer to something in your story, you can refer to it without having to think of its world-building ramifications. For example, if your characters decide to go see a musical, you can research whether or not the town in which your story takes place has a theater, as opposed to having to ask yourself, “would this town that I’m inventing logically have a theater?”
Name recognition. Everybody knows about New York. If your story takes place in New York, they know what that means and they probably know about it on some level. Using it as your location will allow all of the reader’s knowledge about the place to fill in the setting. This is not, however, an excuse to not use strong details in terms of your setting. (We will talk about details in a jiffy).
Now that we’ve gone over some of the more general advantages to working with a real location, here are a few things to keep in mind while doing so:
Get it right. This means research. Even if you live in this place, it means research. Misrepresenting a place, whether it’s a matter of geography, culture, or something in between, is a travesty and will be a failure in your story. Make sure, when you include a detail or piece of information, that it makes sense, is credible, and contributes to the image of the place that you are trying to express.
Go to there! The best way to research is to experience the location. Look around for concrete details: what do the buildings look like, how do people get around, what sort of slang do they use, what are the more interesting or prevalent aspects of the culture. Of course, research is critical in representing a place accurately, and the most accurate way of research is going there and learning about it first-hand.
Understand the culture. If you cannot visit the place for whatever reason, find resources. Use the Internet, books, film, television, and anything you can get your hands on. Try to immerse yourself in the place as best as you can. Looking something up on Wikipedia is cool, but not enough. Listen to music that came out of that place. Read the books. Watch the films, the local news, the sports teams. Check the weather. Talk to the people. Get primary sources. Get to the heart of that place’s culture.
Google Maps. Even if you live in a place, you can still mess up. It happens all the time. Which side of the street is that café on? Are you positive? Completely? Might as well check. Google Maps (especially street view) is a resource to which writers of older generations did not have access. Take advantage of it. Also make use atlases, maps, and anything that can clear up any geographical confusion. There’s no reason to make a mistake in the age when everything is instantly knowable.
Be convincing. Now that you have all of this information, you have to write it in a way that builds the place for the reader. They haven’t done the research that you have, and so it is your responsibility to create the world as you know it. There are a couple of ways to go about this:
Use concrete detail. Show them the place. Giving strong sensory detail is the best way to get readers involved and interested in a place with which they’re unfamiliar. If the reader is familiar with the place, using concrete details will make them feel like they know what’s going on and they’ll feel that you are portraying it accurately.
Use dialect. What do these people call a long sandwich? Is it a sub, a hoagie, a hero? Getting in touch with vernacular can make or break how convincing your story is. Dialogue should blend in with landscape; make it convincing. A misplaced slang word can throw off your reader’s sense of place. Be careful. In this vein, here is a helpful article regarding writing accents in a story.
Let the story fit. Stories aren’t built for every setting. Setting is a living part of the story that interacts with characters, plot, and everything else that goes on the page. If your story does not make sense in your chosen setting, choose a different setting or choose a different story. A disconnect between those two ideas will cause a collapse.
Now that we’ve explored real settings in some depth, let’s take a look at fictional settings. First: why use one?
You are in total control. Nothing shows up without your consent. You can construct anything and put it in your story, as long as it doesn’t feel too far-fetched (and even if it does!). If you need to include a boarding school, or a café, or a societal norm or value, then you don’t have to worry if such an institution already exists, because your place is fictional.
The research is all on you. If you don’t understand the Subway system, for example, you might have to do a lot of research if you’re writing a story that takes place in New York. If you’re building your own place, you can design whatever public transportation system that you like, which runs on your characters’ schedules. Perks. By not having to conform to a real place, you don’t have to worry about your story being an accurate representation of anything. This does not preclude the fact that your story should be realistic in terms of how certain kinds of places operate. If Fictionville is a rural area with a population in the low hundreds, you still need to make sure that you are accurately portraying that kind of place.
There are a few things to focus on while developing Fictionville:
World-build. Even if you are not writing fantasy, any created fictional place should be planned well. Treat it like you have to create a universe from scratch, because you basically are. The more fully you think about Fictionville and the more you understand its history, culture, and people, the richer it will come across on the page. Here’s an article on the basics of world-building. Applying its principles to your own place will be helpful.
Understand geography. You don’t have to make a map, but you should know the ins and outs of your town on a geographic level. If making a map would help you, do it, but you should at least know how large Fictionville is, how many people live there, what is located in what place, how to people get from one place to the next, etc., so that you do not make logistical errors in your story.
Place it. If applicable, try placing Fictionville somewhere in the real world. Maybe it’s in northern Ohio, or just outside of London. This, like many aspects of the planning and development process, does not have to be included in the narrative itself, but will help give Fictionville cultural roots.
Finally, some general remarks about writing any kind of setting.
Use concrete details to your advantage. Your setting, no matter where it is, will live or die by the details you use. You do not have to describe every element of a setting, but using certain ones that trigger the sense can familiarize readers with the location. This is a somewhat lengthy post on detail that includes a section on setting in the middle.
Assume unfamiliarity. Writing your story with the assumption that the reader has never seen your setting in person forces to you try even harder to bring it to life. Knowing that the reader is unfamiliar can make it daunting and difficult to write setting, but this notion should motivate you to represent the place as faithfully and richly as possible.
Bus schedules aren’t enough. There are two sides to setting: logistics and soul. If a character gets on a specific bus route, it’s probably a good idea to research if such a bus actually exists, but this is only one side of writing about setting. The part that is infinitely harder is understanding the spirit of a location, what makes it tick, what motivates its citizens, and how this culture matches your story. Whether your place is real or made-up, this will be your greatest challenge in writing setting.
And so, which one should you pick? Like always, there is no single, correct way to write something. Hopefully this article explained some of the advantages and requirements of either writing about a real place or a fictional one. At the end, the reader should not be able to tell.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (for the American West)
Typee by Herman Melville (for Nuku Hiva)
Favorite Books for Fictional Settings:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (for Maycomb, Alabama)
The Harry Potter Series (for Hogwarts)
Rabbit, Run by John Updike (for Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania)
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