Pittsburgh is my Paris. Remember, even flash fiction needs to be grounded in a particular place. You know your home town. Use its flavor to flavor your stories. Don't let your stories take place in any/every town. The trick is to make your home town any/every town.
I have had the luck to go through one ondred countries and a few hundred cities, it is amazing how the brain can compose a town of a city taking a little of this one and a little of that one....
The think that matters is to describe something you know, knowledge beats always fantasy.
Great points.
Georg
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
This is the trade paperback edition of the mythopoeic paranormal novel recounting the attempts of one Danny Blue and his friends to come to terms with a series of unusual events in his life. A Kindle eBook edition is also available.
Helios is an award winning novel about a brilliant inventor of new technology, a fallen CEO seeking redemption, and an idealistic youth who comes of age in corporate America.
The think that matters is to describe something you know, knowledge beats always fantasy.
Great points.
Georg