Any local stories?

Writing my third novel in a series (unintended). The first two take place in Portland (right of MLK - two doors down from me, conincidentaly). This last one begings in the same house as they are packing to go to Darfur, or somewhere near there. I sure hope they make it out of the country this time!

Mine's going to start off in Portland, 'cause the MC is hiding out here from her past. Then it goes into globe-trotting mode.

Mine takes place all over downtown Portland.

Mine takes place in an area at least based off of the Portland area, unless it actually was even more rainy several hundred years ago... XD It's an avian fantasy. At least, that's what I'm planning on... :P With this much time left before November, who knows whether my plot will change.

My main character starts out at college in Portland but drops out to move to the desert. I think I'll enjoy the contrast.

I'm continuing the trilogy from last year. My MC started out in Portland in last years' book... she's on Mars now... causing all heaps of trouble (and she wouldn't be a proper MC of mine if she wasn't).

There may be more dream stuff in this one... I have fun with a dream sequence in last years' book, starting in Pioneer Square.

Okay, *smacks back of hand* I have to get my bee-hind to bed... been out sick all this last week, and have to stop playing hooky and go to work in the morning.. . urgh.

Amanda

Interesting. I thought I couldn't be the only one writing out ideas that at least start here or drift in and then back out. Hurrah! I've already started the bad habit of run on sentences. This year should be a breeze!

I just wish that I could find something on how much it used to rain in the summer several hundred years ago, because if I could figure that out I'd know whether I could actually set my story here... the past just needs to be even rainier than it is now, and I'll be good. Unfortunately, none of my time spent searching vigorously on Google for facts has come up with anything... XP Anyone happen to know anything?

Sarurun Kamui -

Here's a page with the Water Year Data from 1871 - 1999. I don't know how accurate it is or anything but maybe it will help. It appears that in the late 1800's it was more rainy here in the Portland area.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/pqr/pdxclimate/PG70.html

Hope this helps!

Awesome. Thank you. Now, if it was that much rainier just over a hundred years ago, then several hundred years ago it ought to have been... really rainy. 0_o And most people here probably wonder if that's possible.
So. I can use the real Imbrion, and since no one knows how much it rained so long ago, it won't matter even if I do exaggerate it. And I can make Mt. Hood erupt... very fun... Go Oregon. :D

Exaggerate all you want! That's the beauty of it. I don't know how far back you are planning on taking it, but records only go back so far.

Also, FYI, according to the USGS, Mt. Hood has erupted before. In fact, they state that the last major eruption of Mt. Hood happed in the 1790s, just before the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Sorry, I'm a bit of a Portland history buff...

Hi there all!

I'm amazed there are so many of us writing local stories. Personally, I like to get "away" from where I live when I write my NaNo, or any given story. It's nice to get away from the world we live in sometimes....

Now, to contradict that logic....my NaNo this year takes place in Downtown Portland. It starts out in a nightclub, but at the end of the first chapter, a huge mysterious "wave" hits the city. It destroys it completely, and when the MC female wakes up, she finds she's one of the few left alive, and the ones who died are all crazy, killing, lunatics....of course she might turn out to be a lunatic too, since she wakes up with a devil and little angel on her two shoulders....

Anyway, that's my Portland story. It'll be interesting! I may never look at our downtown streets the same again....
Night Silver

Portland, all locales. Characters from Sellwood to the 'tron, from St. John's to Milwaukie to Lake Oswego.

My story's about my house. My rug to be exact. (It may sound stupid, but it's going to be really cool.)

Cool shizz! I live on MLK too. :) I'm writing local; a story about a trannyboi's adventures in Portland.

Mine is based in a fictional town in the Cascades, near Lebanon. The prologue shows that my MC moved from Fort Wayne to Portland for a brief time before heading south down the valley. I'll probably work in a Powell's reference or two somewhere in the book - and maybe VooDoo Donuts.

Gravitas is fairly obviously Portland to anyone familiar with the area, and I started in on another one set here too.

Sadly, I needed a new idea for this year because I've already written part of the second one, and I just can't see how a superhero story set in Portland would fly. No pun intended.

Yes...Portland and Spokane Wa in the early 1900s. A lot of research to see what was around back then. You'll definitely be reading some Shanghaing!
Darth Maulanie

My story starts in portland. Then the rising stars of the portland indie scene go on tour, taking the MC with them.

Part of my story takes place in Kennewick..does that count?

DarkMatter

My story is about a Congressional race in Oregon's Third District... against a fictional Congressman who is not like Earl Blumenauer at all... mostly.

Mine takes place in a futuristic/alternative reality Pacific NW area including PDX, Seattle, and some other places.

Oh, yeah. A good portion of this year's project is set in modern-day Portland, though other locations include Colonial Connecticut, 17th century Western Africa, Maryland in the 1950s, and the modern-day Idaho high desert.

I've got a walk-in, a demon, and a pair of vampires running about having all sorts of fun. ;)

-- jen

What? No Super JavaMan?

:)

-- jen

I'm heading my MC and accomplice of sorts from Vegas, via Brooklyn NY into Portland. I'm still waiting to see what actually happens there, or if they even get here...

It's difficult to take even a superhero seriously when he wears socks with sandals! Besides that, I find it much easier to destroy buildings when I don't have to perform meticulous research to figure out exactly where pieces of masonry will land and if there's actually a parking meter right in front of a particular bank....

--
In one brief moment of clarity, he saw the whole picture: life, the universe, and his place in it. If he can do it again, he has a chance to achieve what everyone wants.

Gravitas

Mine is a near future speculative fiction piece set all around Portland, the Columbia River, Astoria, etc. Mt Hood doesn't erupt in mine, but Yellowstone does!

Hey! I'm wearing socks with sandals right now -- of course, that's because it was chilly this morning, and I really love my Keens. ;)

-- jen, probably not a superhero

This is the first time I've set a novel in Portland. I've written others that were set in different parts of Oregon, but I'm excited to be able to include some of my favorite Portland locations this time around. My characters have already taken a drive up Terwilliger. :-)

My Nanovel is set in Portland in a hospice inspired in part by the ones I've worked in.