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Please come forward and describe any small town that you have lived in at some point in your life.
Please state the town's population, and also its location if possible.
They must be non-fictional descriptions of a Real Town.
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The reason behind this thread:
Authors of Snippettsville would appreciate some real life examples from different perspectives to add to our research.
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An example from Alex De Kok (I have his permission to copy and paste this) for our fictional town of Snippettsville:
'...Most descriptions were left deliberately vague, so that writers had freedom to work within the suggested framework. The few characters mentioned - Hannah, Jack and Ethel, Tom - were just sketched in to add a little colour to what would otherwise be an empty environment. Some of you have put flesh on my skeletons and made them real.
Snippettsville therefore, is an ex-lumbering small town (probably) in Pennsylvania. Not directly on a main route, it is close enough to an Interstate route that truckers in the know feel that the diversion to Hannah's diner is worthwhile.
I conceived the place as a rural small town where there was no major industry and where a substantial portion of the population commuted to the city to work. Originally I imagined the population to be around 600 - because of the word limit on the stories - but I think we are creating characters from a larger population. Those of you with knowledge of US small towns may wish to advise on this aspect. I now visualise the town as a little larger. How large? You tell me!...'
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Are their similarities to your town? Differences?
Let us know please.
Please come forward and describe any small town that you have lived in at some point in your life.
Please state the town's population, and also its location if possible.
They must be non-fictional descriptions of a Real Town.
***
The reason behind this thread:
Authors of Snippettsville would appreciate some real life examples from different perspectives to add to our research.
***
An example from Alex De Kok (I have his permission to copy and paste this) for our fictional town of Snippettsville:
'...Most descriptions were left deliberately vague, so that writers had freedom to work within the suggested framework. The few characters mentioned - Hannah, Jack and Ethel, Tom - were just sketched in to add a little colour to what would otherwise be an empty environment. Some of you have put flesh on my skeletons and made them real.
Snippettsville therefore, is an ex-lumbering small town (probably) in Pennsylvania. Not directly on a main route, it is close enough to an Interstate route that truckers in the know feel that the diversion to Hannah's diner is worthwhile.
I conceived the place as a rural small town where there was no major industry and where a substantial portion of the population commuted to the city to work. Originally I imagined the population to be around 600 - because of the word limit on the stories - but I think we are creating characters from a larger population. Those of you with knowledge of US small towns may wish to advise on this aspect. I now visualise the town as a little larger. How large? You tell me!...'
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Are their similarities to your town? Differences?
Let us know please.