My Character… my locations

My characters… my locations

When someone asked me recently – ‘Your characters are so strange and distinctive, surely they can’t be based on people you know can they?’ And ‘Why do your locations seem so real but so different?’ I gave a little appreciative nod, replied with some unsatisfactory catch-all response concerning merging fact with imagination and moved on to another less personal subject.

But it got me thinking…

The real answer, now I’ve had time to consider the reasons, goes like...