I don't actually have any writing at the moment to show everyone, but I need some help with a book I am about to write and I wasn't sure where else to put this. If it is not where it is supposed to be then just tell me and I will move it :)
Does anyone know a small town in Australia that is right next door to a forrest?
Thanks a lot ;D
Mystic Ward
14 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
Depends on which State/area you want to write about. Have a go at Google maps or something similar.
Or you could just make up a town :nod: Then you get to name it and you can work out the landmarks and such as you need them.
Ashlings' guildleader
14 years ago
Fri Jan 08 2010, 10:11am
Ashlings' guildleader
Dreamscape Artist
[act]agrees with Ama[/act], coming up with fictional towns is fun!
I think that your more limiting factor would be the type of forest you want.
If you want a Myrtle Beech forest, the only two stands left are in the Ottawa national park and the Strezleki Mountains in Victoria.
If you want a tropical rain forest you'll obviously have to go for somewhere in the north of the country, but there are temperate rainforests right through Victoria and NSW. A Victorian example would be Mt Macedon, north of Melbourne.
Or if you want a bush/scrub type of forest, I think there's some out in Gippsland, Victoria.
I know that the bush comes right up around Dalesford, but I'm not sure Dalesfords small enough and I can't remember what type of bush it is. And then of course there's the area around the prom. Can't remember what that is either...
And has now exhausted off the top of the head knowledge of geography with regards to forests in Australia ~:|
Mystic Ward
14 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
My family come from a tiny town called Talbot in Victoria that is pretty much surrounded by State Forest, mostly gum trees. There are hundreds of those all over the country.
Thanks Deb, Ama and MM. I will get back on to google maps to look at the places you have suggested and if I don't think it suits my story then I will do what Ama suggested and make up my own town which should be fun ;D
Glad to have helped, BM, and BTW, this is exactly the sort of place for these sorts of questions :nod:
oh good that's a relief... i was worried i had gotten the wrong place ;D
Well even if it were in the wrong place, it could just be magically whisked to the right one anyway :P
May I ask what this prospective story shall be about?
Well I am still working a lot of it out but it will be about 7 teenage spirit warriors each with a spiritual conection to a different animal. Basically they have to protect the land around them (the forest and the town they live in) from danger. It's not perfect yet but I'm working on it ~:|
Hey I'm having a bit of trouble with my starting paragraph (as per usual) for my new book, and I was wondering if anyone could help me by checking it out and seeing if it is capturing enough?
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Story of my life. I’m moving from the big, beautiful city of Brisbane, with it’s white beaches, great shops, and party lifestyle, to some small, lazy, and probably run-down little town called Apollo Bay, that lays somewhere in the realm of Where-the-hell-are-we, also known as The-middle-of-nowhere. It’s not even in the same state! Hell, I didn’t even know the town existed until Mum and Dad kindly decided to ruin my life six weeks ago, though I admit I probably would have if I’d ever bothered to listen to Mum and Dad drone on about their oh-so-fascinating childhoods. Not something I was ever prone to do, even as a child.
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What do you think?
Mystic Ward
14 years ago
Mystic Ward
Twentyfamilies Gypsy
At least Apollo Bay has a nice beach. IC would say its a great place to live. :P
it really good i just have a few questions;
oh-so-fanscinating childhoods
um, should it have the -s?
Well I thought it would, as I am talking about her mum and her dad, and it sounded right to me. But maybe you are right :-/ Either way, maybe someone else can shed light on it.
@ Shadowchild: it's refering to two different people's childhood so yes, without the s you would probably have to assume they grew up together and shared the same childhood but with the s it gives you two seperate ones. :nod:
As far as hooking people in BM you seem to have done alright. You've given us an obviously bitter teenager who certainly isn't happy about her circumstances though being a country girl from a small-ish town I'd have to disagree :P
It sounds really interesting. Do you have any idea of what's going to happen in your book?
no problem, it didn't quie feel right.
try something like,
I would never drone, I could never stand the buzzing of words that made no sense to anyone but the listener.
or maybe
If I ever fall prone to the endless buzzing of words explaining how wonderful my childhood was, then let me not remember it.
those are just too sort of rewordings that might help.
:O I'm intrigued. I hope one day I get to read it. Maybe I'll walk into a book store and see it there. ;P
Well the first way is how I read it, as it just seems obvious but I guess people could read it the other way too . . . that's the fun of writing though. People always interprate things differently :D
and i interprate things more than one way and confuse my self but doesn't it make it funner? i don't think funner is a word, but its funner when you make up words too.