tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post3794163044573694205..comments2024-03-28T03:20:13.802-04:00Comments on A Good Blog is Hard To Find: Home: The Setting Of Our ChildhoodsA Good Blog Is Hard to Findhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13823958967965785849noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-9444616238007254652010-06-08T20:45:33.859-04:002010-06-08T20:45:33.859-04:00Your downtown could be mine. Terrific library, a s...Your downtown could be mine. Terrific library, a smattering of stores, many other similarities. Though yours is in a completely different part of the world and my water fountains probably had "white" and "colored" signs over them. small towns are very much alike, whether in Mississippi (mine) or N.Y. <br />Thanks for reminding me of this.Augusta Scattergoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04185014694721868127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-28628180341867887252010-06-02T15:11:36.338-04:002010-06-02T15:11:36.338-04:00You're right. Home is the place I keep coming ...You're right. Home is the place I keep coming back to in my novels. In fact, when I use another setting, one I've researched on the Internet or during brief travels, I feel untethered. Setting becames just a name on a page instead of a living, breathing character. <br /><br />Oh, Karin, I adored your description of the diner with the waitress named Mavis!Peggy Webbhttp://www.peggywebb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-41002492497351324012010-06-02T14:06:00.297-04:002010-06-02T14:06:00.297-04:00Thanks for your comments. I'm always struck, ...Thanks for your comments. I'm always struck, when reading fiction, how a vivid, memorable setting can become almost a character in and of itself.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04784152968955562987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-81663714829312052502010-06-02T11:07:28.328-04:002010-06-02T11:07:28.328-04:00Thanks for sharing memories of your home...it soun...Thanks for sharing memories of your home...it sounds very Mayberry. :) I recently wached the 10th Anniversary of the documentary "Brother's Keeper" and I have to be honest in that I had sterotyped New York and some of the Northern neck of the woods! What a beautiful part of the country!Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07155182966113846881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-91181889643818218912010-06-02T10:21:07.383-04:002010-06-02T10:21:07.383-04:00It's so true! I create fictional towns in my s...It's so true! I create fictional towns in my stories, but they closely resemble my home town. :)Laura S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13934230198562773803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-81286065223551106202010-06-02T10:01:23.855-04:002010-06-02T10:01:23.855-04:00Wow. How incredible, you posted this article at th...Wow. How incredible, you posted this article at the precise timing that I've been thinking the SAME thing. It's a sign. ;-) I know that I HAVE to write it now.Carol ReMarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11050896551340544386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-11495253622351664892010-06-02T08:18:35.709-04:002010-06-02T08:18:35.709-04:00I grew up in Minnesota and have many memories of c...I grew up in Minnesota and have many memories of cold, silent winters, deserted streets and snow piled up past the windows. It wasn't until I moved to the South and visited a lot of small towns that I was motivated to write.<br /><br />Small towns fill up my well like no place else. I like to eat slow-cooked grits in a diner with framed pictures of John Wayne, plastic covered menus and a waitress named Mavis. "A Tear in My Beer" plays on the jukebox and they actually have streak of lean on the menu. Man. That is heaven to me.Karin Gillespiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526466399023966816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-21422793326331535172010-06-02T08:00:13.551-04:002010-06-02T08:00:13.551-04:00Great descriptions. I felt like I was ther.Great descriptions. I felt like I was ther.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917245635820611026.post-12965995039459981152010-06-02T06:22:41.508-04:002010-06-02T06:22:41.508-04:00I would probably avoid setting anything in the pla...I would probably avoid setting anything in the place I grew up mostly because it would be dead boring - for me. Yes, I can conjure the details in my mind but I want to create new spaces and places.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing this post and getting us all thinking about our use of setting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com