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Writing Excuses 5.5: Writing the Unfamiliar

Writing Excuses

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How to Write a Good Story

All little towns of America to a certain point are identical it is a real place and what I did for that is I got my brother and we said and we live in Utah which has a lot of small towns. We just kind of wrote down what were all the major points you know what makes something feel like a small town things like everybody knows each other at least to a point. People don't tend to lock their doors there's maybe one or two large industries in the town and everybody works for them. You know little details like that that you can throw into the background and then people will start to believe that it's a real place because it feels familiar.

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