Location, Location, Location

When it comes to creating a sense of place in your work, how do you do it? (Research and real places? Invention and fictional ones?) What’s worked for you, and what hasn’t? 

by Paul D. Marks

This one’s going to be on the long side. Mostly because I’m using several excerpts from stories or novels and I’m focusing only on things set in L.A. or Southern California here.

There’s no end to the ways one can do research in terms of creating a sense of place. I tend to set a lot of what I write in...