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   IlhamAlKhatib
   IlhamAlKhatib · Fri Jul 26, 2013 3:28 pm

   hello... )
   can you guys let me know whether you can write about a place that you didn't visit but you heard about it or saw it only on Googe earth.. as the place where a lot of main events occur ?!!
   
   *I choose this place as places I've been are religious and conservative,,,, which doesn't afford my story and its events... !
   
   *or Can I add to places I know properties and stuff they don't have... like drinks, guy-girl thing and son on !!
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   Rydia Creator
   Rydia · Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:41 pm

   Hi Illham,
   
   You certainly can! I do this all the time, though it does of course help if you read up about the place and look at images on the internet. I'm currently setting a big part of my novel in a town I've never visited, so I'm using a mixture of research and artistic licence. I think when it comes to it, I may end up changing the name so that it can be anywhere at all, but I'm not sure yet.
   
   I hope that helps!
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   StoneHeart
   StoneHeart · Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:09 pm

   Reading up on a place REALLY helps (and images too), but seeing as most of my worlds are imaginary I don't have to bother about it.

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