Carl Vonderau says, “Getting the Setting Right Can be Fun and Dangerous”
Carl Vonderau is the author of Murderabilia and Saving Myles. You can learn more about him at his website, carlvonderau.com/, by clicking here, and you can buy his books here. This is his first post for the Blackbird Writers. When setting is evoked well, it is another character in a story. But how do you get it right if you don’t live in the place you’re writing about? My solution is to go there and walk around. Like Bogota. Or Tijuana. I even strolled through Algiers at the height of North African terrorism. As I walked, I found I not only…