Where does your chick live? what kind of work does she do?

Personally I like someone I can relate to.
I work in a warehouse as a receiver.
I like strong female character who isn't afraid of a little hard work.
I don't really know what it's like to be some corperate executive, so that isn't really something that would appeal to me.
I've heard, "write what you know." I think the same holds true for what we read too...

An Author is someone who gets paid to tell them where to go, and how to get there.

My MC (yet to be named) lives in NYC - but in a ghetto-y section of Brooklyn rather than Manhattan or even the chi-chi places in Brooklyn - and teaches special ed.

Like RowanWatersprite said above, I'm going to write what I know... so my character is going to live here in Chicago as a librarian (a job I've held in the past)! I can't stand when writers try to force their character to be something they have no idea about, because it really shows, I think, and that just makes it so much harder as a reader to get into the plot, when the character isn't believable.

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My heroine is going to work in the corporate world (because like some others, that's what I know) and as for the city, I'm struggling with that as much as I am with my other book. But she will be in the city, perhaps in Austin, Dallas, or Houston. My other city I'm using for a different category is either going to be Kansas City, St. Louis, or Chicago.

But as for her position, she's going to fall into the up and (trying to be) coming corporate type. She's not a peon, but she's got to get some momentum to be where she wants to be.

My chick is a Ph.D. student living in New York City. She's from Texas originally and most of the action takes place there.

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My chick is from Ireland, but moves to Florida. She works at a pub, so I named her, Maeve (which means, "she who intoxicates")

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My chicks work in a "glamorous" job, but since they're having to do everything themselves (they're a startup magazine/blog type thing) there will be some grunt work and suffering. I want them to be a few years post grad, middle twenties. As for locations, I'm thinking of plopping them right into the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn. Since all of this is preliminary, it may change.

My MC is a wannabe actress who works in a vintage clothing store that also has a pyshic in the back. (It's kind of a quirky tale.)

As for a settting, I've chosen a smaller city. I'm debating whether to give it an exact location or just keep it nameless.

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My chick lives in the Netherlands. She lives in Utrecht (or Amsterdam), a place in The Netherlands. She is a journalist by a lifestyle magazine.

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Still trying to figure out what my MC is going to do a for a living. I know that she is originally from the Midwest and living in LA, where at times she feels like she doesn't fit in because she is a curvy girl.
Was thinking she does event planning at a hotel. I used to work in that industry, just not here in LA.

My MC...I can't decide on Chicago or Atlanta...or anywhere else for that matter. I was thinking of making up a fictional city. She is a surgical intern with a passion for art. She wants to become a well-known artist in the city, but certain things are holding her back.

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My "chick lit" has a male MC. o___O; He lives in an unspecified urban area, in decent apartments that are the next best thing to owning an actual house, but he can't quite afford an actual house, and he's a model who works evening shifts stocking shelves at Target too. He's the single parent of one kid.
My actual female MC, love interest of male MC, lives in the same unspecified urban area, in a rather fancy modern home. She's a pediatrician who teaches youth karate every other Saturday. She's also the single parent of one kid.

VeganMacandCheese- I love that you have a male MC. That's so cool!

My nano is the classic girl from the big city moves to a small town. Since mine is teenage chick lit she moves from New York after her father decides to go after his life long dream of doing doctors without borders and goes off to Cambodia. Livvie (that's two v's not a w, it's short for Olivia) is forced to move from the Upper East Side to the tiny (fictional) town of Nola, Texas where her mom lives with her stepfather, two step-siblings, Emma and Jake and her half-sister Julie. On the way she learns to not be such a, well, such a b****.

Livvie works as a waitress in her mom's diner. She hates everything about it, from the blue polyester uniform to the greasy, home-style food (god, why isn't there a good sushi place in the hell hole of a town?).

I like seeing the ideas that others have come up with.

My MC lives in an as yet undetermined suburb in an apartment. She works for a big research company as a low level research assistant (something I know quite a bit about) and hates it.

My MC is in her 2nd year of Uni at the University of Greenwich in London. I haven't decided yet if she'll be living in Greenwich in student housing, or back on the other side of the river with her family, but either way -- she'll be just a short train ride away from Central London.

I also haven't been able to decide if I want to give her a job or not. If so, she'll likely just be a cashier in a silly tourist shop or a coffee shop in a Tube station somewhere close by. [:

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My MC is in her mid thirties, lives in the Midwest, and owns a high end baby boutique where she sells luxurious baby items as well as nursery bedding collections that she designs herself.

She lives and works in a small Pac-West Island town. She's an ER nurse. So is it hard? Yes. Glamourous? No not really.

To the public and her parents, my MC is a freelance editor who scrapes by a living editing for a local publishing concern and various businesses around town who hire her to review their internal publications. In reality, that is only part of her income. Only her publisher knows that she is also one of his authors, writing chick lit/romances based on their area. She is gaining popularity in their state, but it's nowhere near the money a famous author makes, so she still just scrapes by a living.

As to where she lives - it is in a winterized camp by a lake that her family has owned since her great-grandfather's time. She lives alone by choice and by temperment, although that part of her life is beginning to dissatisfy her. It's in the boonies of a small town that *gasp* is very like a town near where I live.

My MC lives in small town Michigan (which is where I'm from) and she's an illustrator for children's books and an elementary school art teacher.

MC lives in urban Southern California, haven't decided if it is Los Angeles proper or an outlying area...but a large portion of the book takes place in her childhood home town of Chandler, Arizona. Time flashes back and forth between present day and her high school days.

As an adult, she is a bartender and sometimes exotic dancer.

My MC is mid-twenties, originally from Kansas, moved to New York, and is now back in Kansas for a while. I'm thinking she's going to be a magazine editor (not a journalist, because every heroine and their aunt are journalists, it seems) and she's in Kansas taking some time off to visit her parents. Her name's Luna River.

And then of course she meets her high-school sweetheart again. :)

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Charlie, my FMC, works as a software developer. She's the only woman in her team, and in three jobs she has only ever been the only woman in her team - until the company hires Sophie.

She owns a small house in a moderately grotty part of a smallish city in the UK.

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She's going to be living in our neighborhood in Chicago - haven't decided what she'll be doing yet for work, but it's the kind of earn-money-for-more-school type job.

My MC, Faith, lives in Manila, Philippines :) She works as a full time missionary for her Catholic community, and she just recently moved out of her parents' house and is now living in a small apartment. She thinks condominiums are too frivolous, so she found the cheapest apartment she can to save up on her expenses. I'm still deciding if she moved out because of a conflict with her family or just because she wants to. :D

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Mine, Abby, is a surgical intern in an L.A. teaching hospital -- so the town's glamorous (or capable of it on its better days, anyway) and the work is hard, but those are two very separate things. And then she adds amateur sleuth to her resume.

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My MC lives in Princeton, NJ. her best friends live in or close to NYC so i wanted somewhere close enough to the city that she could visit, but not so close that she sees them all the time. she's a baker and cake decorator.

My MC, Mina, lives in a made-up small New England town. I still don't have a name for the town, but it's already got quite a personality. Mina and her sister own a tea shop. It's not glamorous, just fun and frivolous!

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My chick lives in San Francisco, in a sketchy apartment with a pair of roommates. She's got a job working in the box office of a theatre company. I feel like she's going to have a second, small side job, but I haven't figured out what yet.

My curvy chick lives and works in PIttsburgh (where I am from). She is a columnist for the local indie paper.

My FMC lives in a small town where's she's been her entire life. There's a bigger city next door, but she doesn't get out much. She lives in a one-bedroom apartment modeled after my last one. She works at a coffeeshop since that's what I did for 2 years. The only other option is RETAIL. I wouldn't wish that on anyone IRL, let alone in fiction. I loved my coffeeshop job so that's where she'll be.

Her BFF works in a clothing store in that bigger city and the love-interest is a professor of some kind of science at a university nearby.