Writer's Guide to Places
Writer's Digest Books, December, 2002.
Trade Paperback, 402 pages.
ISBN: 1582971692
You're writing a mystery and your main character
needs to navigate the streets of Seattle and have
a shoot-out at the Pike Place Market. The problem?
You live in Dubuque and you've never been to Seattle.
Enter the Writer's Guide to Places, which
provides detailed information about
states, cities and provinces in the United States
and Canada to help writers quickly find the statistics
or regional information they need.
Each geographic listing in the book includes information
written specifically for writers. For example, the
Sacramento listing includes information about
Sacramento facts and peculiarities your character
might know, local grub your character might love,
pathetically sad things your character is ashamed
of in Sacramento and where your character might
go if they are rich, a nature lover or a middle-class
family man. The book also includes suggestions for
interesting settings or scenes and a list of additional
resources including books and websites.
By offering both basic details about
a location and more obscure information that
only a local resident would know, the Writer's
Guide to Places is a very handy and time-saving
book for writers to have at their disposal.
Writer's Guide to Places is available for purchase on Amazon.com
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This review was published in the September-October, 2003 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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