My brain is full of useless… stuff. It’s a double-edged sword, because I have plenty of content floating around in my head to put to paper pad canvas screen?
I’m blogging this one from my phone because as I sit at my local Chinese restaurant, I imagine the atmosphere and what it would be good for. My current project and labor of love, Drachenara, is a fantasy novel, so that setting doesn’t really work well. A good modern setting would work well. It isn’t seedy, but it’s darker, and has mood lighting. The walls are dark wood, and there are canvas drapes that are a nice dark maroon color, with gold texturing.
Such a place makes for the perfect scene setting in any modern setting, really. Fantasy, crime, mystery, romance… any of these are perfect for it.
After kind of rambling for a while, I guess the point here is that the environment is always important. They’re as important for the story as the main characters, and they’re important in the real world as well.
T.G. Neal 