The Grotto Revisited...

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Inspiration comes from the weirdest places...

Now I'm a self-proclaimed weirdo so my thinking doesn't go to the same place as most. It's wondering why the person you're dating only sees you at night. Then thought flitters in, "Maybe they're a vampire". Or better yet, seeing a huge full moon on the way into work one morning while evaluating another's moodiness, I think, "Maybe they're a werewolf." Of couse, this is only the very begining of the process. A writer takes snippets of life and combines, changes, and fabricates (a lot) to create fiction. My characters may follow a few of the old troupe rules, but break so many of them they become something totally new...

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Another element in my collection of places referenced in Drkana. Most of the scenes in my writing are real places I have been to, although I often use pieces and combine and expand on my memories of them, and even relocate them if need be. How do you create setting?