Stephen King said something along the lines that a writer is trying to paint a picture in the mind of the reader.
Painting the setting is part of that. You are trying to drop the reader into an area – or, for me, drop them in and wade them through.
The canal (the Grand Canal in my case) is the setting for my novel, a particular stretch of it actually. The canal is a character in its own right. As the publication of Black Water nears, I want to start putting up some images from the canal and its environs, to give a sense of its beauty and grit (and the blurred line between both) and kinda set the scene for the story.
So..
Take a seat
meet the swans
admire the graffiti
stroll under the bridges
take in the scorch marks
pop down for some shopping
jump on the Luas
and meet the author…
driving this God damn novel over the line…
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