Posts tagged with “setting”
February 25
What happens to junk left behind in foreclosed homes? That is a very good question, and ripe for storytelling, either from the POV of the former home-owner, or, even better, the POV of the foreclosure people. Sad, really. In fact, this video interview format would make a great trope for a piece of fiction. 09:50 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: inspiration, setting, character, story-starter
I don’t care about golf, but this periscope is fantastic. I want to write a story about someone who happens upon something like this accidentally. Perhaps a long-abandoned and overgrown gold course. Thank you boingboing.
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February 13
Fantastic footage of a dust storm in New South Wales. Great setting for a story. 09:36 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: inspiration, setting
February 11
Flickr set of the abandoned Henryton State Hospital, for whenever detail of an abandoned hospital is needed.
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December 24
(20081224)<br /><strong>Funeral notes</strong><br />Two halves of a family crossing paths at a double-booked funeral procession. Procession grows and grows, but do any burials or eulogies take place? The brothers are all alive…then who’s is the first and second casket? Maybe we don’t know? One brother? Grandma with marginal connection? He keeps getting pushed back, with each person before him making his speech need to be better, benefitting from what goes before, no chance of the leeway given the first with none to compare to. <br />Drop a casket, wrong body, merging with second procession, distant relative who couldn’t be there, third non-family procession, public officer &/or priest, re-use of casket, double eulogy replay, film shoot, pet burial.<br /><strong>Character, plot notes, story starter</strong><br />A comet as the origin of dragons.<br />A reckoning > humanity of dark people > In Bruges > fragile people in dirty things. Honesty.<br /><strong>Funeral notes</strong><br />In caskets are men and woman who died of sordid and evil deads, but the narrator speaks of them as fragile dysfunctional children. The bow who wore cape so his shadow would fly. The deaths are dramatic, but the narrator is too self-centered to care. Is the crow a ghost of someone?<br /><strong>Sweaters notes</strong><br />Sweaters and the mysterious following man.<br />Sweaters and the theiving buddhist.<br />Sweaters and the origin of dragons.<br /><strong>Morris Bobetter notes </strong><br />What’s his history of tuning/fixing instruments. First time in a while, constant attempts, during or after Nora died? What did he retire, or is that happening now? Does he need the money for tuning or not? How & why does he tune the instruments together? [lining the walls?] Is the horn sacred?<br /><strong>Character, setting notes</strong><br />The mexican girl who asks you to stay for a minute, while she cleans the shop because she’s frightened. <br /><strong>Morris Bobetter notes </strong><br />There goes Morris now, with more than he can handle, trying not to waste a moment,<br />
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Tags: moleskin, notes, book of ideas, funeral, character, plot, sweaters, swapmeet, setting, story starter
October 24
<p><img src="http://www.boingboing.net/japanese-broom-shop.jpg" border="0" alt="200810221040" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="300" height="437" /> </p><p>According to the <a href="http://www.wordpress.tokyotimes.org/?p=2554">Tokyo Times</a>, this Tokyo broom store hasn't had a customer since 9/2/72, and even that customer wanted a hand broom which they could not provide. Sad, in an awesome sort of way. What a great character/setting to frame a story...who owns this shop? </p>
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Tags: character, setting, inspiration, retail, japan, brooms