A Sense of Place – part 3

I dunno – I guess I’ll stop this eventually but these notes have just sort of grown.

Shortcuts to a sense of place?

Shortcuts can work quite well with contemporary stories with a high romance content. In fact, sometimes all one needs is the right cover. Paris – Eiffel Tower. Rome – the Colosseum. New York – a yellow taxi. London – Big Ben or a red bus. Australia – Uluru. I have read many books where, apart from an establishing paragraph on the first page – Space Needle, that means Seattle, ri...