Does anyone have Saskatchewan as their main setting in their novel? Do you mention Saskatchewan in any way?
I technically don't have Saskatchewan as my novel setting, but my MC heads off to Alberta (the only two places I've actually been to enough to know what I'm talking about!). I think I'll make some references back to Saskatchewan when my MC calls home.
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NaNo 07: We Folk (YA drama) - 10% completed
Frenzy 07: Untitled Thriller (teen murder thriller) - 25% completed
Frenzy 08: The Better Son - (coming out teenage light comedy) - 0%
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Nov 8, 2007 - 08 53
Oo! Oo! Oo! *waves hand in air* I did! But I've lived most of my life in SK and only spent a year in Edmonton (which is where my MC moved to for university and is coming back to SK).
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Nov 8, 2007 - 11 13
I'm trying to avoid specifically mentioning place names in the setting of my novel. I've lived in Saskatchewan for my whole life, though, so I think it's sort of implied that it's set here, haha.
I'm seriously considering just turning the whole thing around right now, transplanting the characters onto another planet, and seeing what happens. My plot wasn't very well thought out this year at all. *cough*
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Nov 8, 2007 - 11 42
My story is set in a fictional community called Woodbine, Sask. - which is loosely based on my hometown in the southeast corner of the province. My novel is about one of those hotel bars you'll find in any mid-sized town in the province.
I spent about eight years in Manitoba in the 1990s, but I'm otherwise a Saskatchewan product, born and bred.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 14 53
I think it really shows in the writing when people write about places they know well. This year, my novel takes place on a fictional world called Athero, but I do use some of the mannerisms and down-home friendliness of Saskatchewaners (the Halflings, ya know - like Hobbits but their feet aren't so hairy). The main Halfling town is Inkitty Main, not really reminiscent of Saskatchewan towns in appearance, but honestly the feeling is there. Well, I think it is.
With my last Nano novel, Witchcanery, I set it in the midwestern U.S. to start with but gradually drifted north to Alberta, albeit underground. (I lived in Calgary at the time.) Not sure if I knew enough to make it really ring true, but it was fun to write. I even mentioned the Frank slide, which had made a huge impression on me the first time I saw it.
I wish I could read everyone's novel. The main reason I love it when people write about what *I* know is figuring out what they are talking about (if they disguise the names) or just pointing at it and say, "Hey, I'VE been there!"
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Raya - (getting crazy in Esterhazy!)
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him! - Ray Bradbury
2002 - Witchcanery - won
2007 - Battle Cleric - we'll see :)
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Nov 9, 2007 - 15 12
I am not putting Saskatchewan per say in my novel. But my pirates have a home planet and parts of it will have Saskatchewan like weather.
My novel the year before was set in 1930's Toronto. So I have set a novel in a Canadian city. When I was thinking of writing that novel and my main male character was a Private Investigator I tried to think of a city not often used for that. I went through a few US cities. Then the thought came to me, why not a Canadian city. So I picked Toronto.
Well maybe next year I will use Saskatchewan in my Novel.
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Nov 13, 2007 - 13 23
Last year, my story took place mainly in Saskatoon, and I enjoyed talking about places that I go to on a regular basis, placing my characters in my neighbourhood, as if placing them in my life. For me, it works.
So, this year, once again my characters are moving around my neighbourhood and other parts of Saskatoon. They are ordinary people, not aliens or mutants. The fourth chapter, however, takes place in the afterlife, as a recently deceased woman tries to figure out where she has gone to after a drug overdose.
I am making it up as I go along, without a plan, which is a lot of fun. I hope everyone is having a great time, and keeping those keyboards smokin'.
----------Let the beauty we love be what we do. (Rumi)
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Nov 14, 2007 - 08 14
I've got Regina as my main setting. Kind of interesting on how I'm incorperaing it in. I am writing a major fanasty novel, with angel's, demon's, vampire's and such. ^.^ -Tina
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Nov 14, 2007 - 17 18
Just a bit off topic. For those who like to read books that are set in places they know. I would like to point you towards the Russell Quant novels by Anthony Bidulka. There are now five in the series.
They are about a gay PI who is half Irish half Ukraiane (sp) and is set in Saskatoon Sk. Though he does travel to other places in the books they all start out in S'toon.
Where else but in a book set in Saskatchewan would you read about a guy being kidnapped in a grain truck and left in a snow storm to die.