nano location sulking

18419 / 50000

Okay, it's kinda on target of 2k a day, but really wishing I was writing more to get me well away from any writers' block days.

In other news, feeling faintly dirty for basing the Cornwall town more-or-less exactly on Falmouth, mostly because I'm familiar with it and can describe the geographic coast. or at least the directions for getting to the station - I thought I was going to be vague-ish, but i just stuck a bunch of very, very exact directions / town layout in one sequence, and that includes Arwenack House as the base of the rich cornish family. Technically it's easily wiped since this'll be the only bit where it's mentioned, but loathe to delete any wordcount at this stage. Oh well....

Mentioning locations, I can't believe it took me until Act 2 to realise that Basildon House is bloody perfect (location, size, etc) for basing my Home Counties pile on. After most of the action has left that bloody house. You may not think this is important, but I know that if I'd had its specific layout in my head, i could've put extra details in scenes! Things to look at when the servants were sneaking a fag out the back door! Nobs talking about the bloody great deer park it's in the middle of! More wordiness! :sulk: As it is, Sam will now be lurking in that bit round the back where the gardeners tools are kept when he has to read his letter. BECAUSE I CAN.

oh, and whose bloody idea was it to dramatise Our Mutual Friend in 15-minute chunks on Radio 4? it's a bloody awful length for a classic radio serial since you get very little idea of characters/enough story to keep going, half an hour or an hour is much better. Radio 4 drama people, you know better than this.