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NarniaRanger Narnia Ranger from The Moors Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#1: Apr 16th 2011 at 11:47:24 AM

Recently I've been using this trope for one of my stories. Has anybody else tried this before? Mine are based off of cities in Los Angeles like Glendale and Pasadena. What cities has anybody else used?

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annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
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#2: Apr 16th 2011 at 10:45:05 PM

The only one I can think of is a town I made up a few years ago called Puddleville, which was a remote upstate New York village that was half-based on select aspects of my hometown and Stephen King's little Maine villages.

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Wolf1066 Crazy Kiwi from New Zealand (Veteran) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
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#3: Apr 17th 2011 at 5:05:57 AM

I just use real cities/locations and harm them as much or as little as the plot demands.

My cyberpunk story is set in a bleak, future version of the city I'm living in; the community in my post-TEOTWAWKI story, which has a more hopeful outlook, is set in the region where I grew up.

theindefiniteone Unfazed Everyman from the End of the World Since: Dec, 2010
#4: Apr 17th 2011 at 7:54:56 AM

I've used New York, Chicago and Boston, but that was for a work of Historical Fiction. I try not to use an exact city when writing other pieces of my work. I don't know why. Although that's probably because I want the story to be able to take place in different settings without changing anything.

Unless the plot is centered around a setting or it's essential to the story, of course.

MattII Since: Sep, 2009
#5: Apr 17th 2011 at 1:01:59 PM

St. Petersburg (Russia), Houston and Baltimore (USA capital after Washington got nuked), with mentions of Oxford, Munich, New York, Johannesburg, Honolulu, Baghdad (then called 'New Babylon'), Chengdu, Sydney, and a few others.

edited 17th Apr '11 1:03:50 PM by MattII

SavageHeathen Pro-Freedom Fanatic from Somewhere Since: Feb, 2011
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#6: Apr 20th 2011 at 4:48:21 PM

I tend to write fantasy. Or sci-fi.

I've wrote about a badly mangled, cyberpunk Berlin.

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Seamus Another Perfect Day from the Quantum Savanna Since: Jul, 2009
Another Perfect Day
#7: Apr 20th 2011 at 5:29:58 PM

I use real cities for the most part, with one notable exception: Port De Soto, a nice city on the coast of Florida, once you get past one of the highest crime rates in the world and the rapid privatizing of...almost everything.

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