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I know setting is important but I'm not sure where to set my story. I lvie in Wales and always have so thats probably the best.
Do I have to be spercific? ( Can't spell today!) Can I just have a whole town/village but not an actual place that exists?
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My WIP is set in Newcastle and Northumberia, but I have created my own housing estate which is central to the book.
D'oh!
How the hell did I mis-spell Northumbria?
Wales?
Its just that horror novels are not often set in Wales. I don't want to write a cosy book about Wales- though that sounsd tempting, so I don't want it to be extremly prominant. Perhaps I'll jsut map out my ficticious place and set is somewhere and mention it once, or imply where it is.
Stick 'Combe' on the end of a careully chosen word and you can get a reasonably DevonAndSomerset feel to a name
Surely that's a good thing ! I'm not a reader of horror myself but I would have thought that the mountains of Wales, the remote areas, even the industrial towns of the south coast could all be used to excellent effect as a backdrop - landscape as character ? If it's a bit different then surely it will have added interest to the publisher and reader ?