: Re: How does a person go about describing a place/experience that they never personally experienced before, like a circus? I've never been to a circus, and all the shows and videos I've seen about

@Candy753

Vote Up Vote Down

This is a really good Question.

How would one write about a place they have never been to?

With a circus, one can always wait for the circus to come to town, pay and experience it for real.

But other things aren't so easy.

If you have never been to the trading pit of wall street, how would you write a scene set on the trading floor? I guess the easy answer is, put that same scene else where.

But what if I have a scene set in Mumbai, a real place, full of real people, well known to many tens and tens of millions of people? And what if my story requires the scene to happen in that city or in India. what if it is a street scene. Should we just move it indoors to a generic office tower?

I don't have an answer.

I am a world traveler. And I have great friends from many cultures. What I do is I research using google maps, google street view, youtube, documentaries, etc. And then based on that research, I project what I know of the closest neighbor/culture to the exotic locale.

(0)

Login to post a comment!