We’re talking settings this week, thanks to Brenda Margiet. Here’s her question:
How do you choose the setting for your book? Does where you live inspire you? this can apply even to books set in paranormal worlds – what do you use from “real life”?
Did you find your way here from S.C. Mitchell’s? I hope so. If not, you missed out!
Since I’ve only written Regency and Scottish historical, my settings are sort of … set.
Generally Regencies take place in and around London. I have taken liberty with that tradition, all the while keeping the traditional trappings of a Regency novel.
I did get very inspired visiting England, France and Spain and touring castles there.
Walking some of the streets I’ve written into my books makes my stories seem more real somehow.
I’ve also had two that were set in the English Countryside, and my current work in progress, Wagers Gone Awry (Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper) is as well.
I’m crazy about the the Scottish Highlands and castles–so romantic–and that’s why the Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series is set there. I do have a trip to Scotland planned … purely for research purposes of course.
I also like settings within settings and create special niches in rooms or alcoves in gardens for my characters to escape to.
I have a Young Adult time travel series planned and the settings of those books will change depending on where my character visits.
Lets head over to Tessa Gray’s and see how she picks her settings.
