{"id":55,"date":"2013-04-17T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-09-09T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:44:47","slug":"creating-a-new-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/writing-news\/creating-a-new-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a New Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my novels, you know that my stories often take place in small, fictitious towns. I love being able to create a new place for my characters and their stories. That way, I don&#8217;t have to make sure a building is on the right street, or that I have the correct name of the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing the location and the right state is important. I&#8217;m working on a new miniseries now, set in Montana, and having a wonderful time visualizing the city. Yep, this place is more a city than a town, complete with a downtown, an uptown and the other side of the tracks. There are ranches, too&#8211;some of my heroes are ranchers.I don&#8217;t usually draw maps, but found one that intrigues me. To avoid confusion later, I just might draw this place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/handdrawnmap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-57\" alt=\"handdrawnmap\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/handdrawnmap-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently I&#8217;m working up synopses for three stories set in this new city, but I visualize many more. I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>If you have suggestions or comments, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Ann<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my novels, you know that my stories often take place in small, fictitious towns. I love being able to create a new place for my characters and their stories. That way, I don&#8217;t have to make sure a building is on the right street, or that I have the correct name of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}