wildsweetone
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Re: WOW! Everybody Has Been Busy.
oops sorry i didn't see your posting before having to relogin yet again to post mine, Quasi.
You make excellent points. Your story The Legendary Boater gives a wonderful visual of the aspects you mention.
(As for whether that story will make it to the formal Submission point, that will come under discussion in the soon to be opened and moved threads in the SDC.)
Quasimodem said:Everyone is way ahead of me, but having had a look at the original maps, I have two comments:
Radio Station: Where a radio station IS, is on the air. Most small radio stations don't have their own building. They’re usually upstairs, above some other business. In the case of the city where I now live, the radio station was above a clothing store, then a bank, and now the top floor of the local television station. The transmitter is on a high ridge above town. When it was bought by the company which owned the television station, moved the radio transmitter to the highest point in the county (where the TV transited already was) and one thousand feet up the television antennae.
Originally, studio and transmitter were connected by land lines, these days, by microwave relay.
What the map shows is not wrong, I would merely put something else on the ground floor.
Green Lake: In my opinion, the lake is much too regular. I would rather see it as a small central area connecting a surrounding group of bays, coves, and inlets where rivers and creeks enter.
We already 'know' - if one story is used - that one area has a hiking trail on a high bluff overlooking the lake.
There should be some islands, rocky points, and dangerous shallows, as well as at least one area with a fairly accessible beach. My reason for suggesting this, is so that one should not be able to see where someone is, on the lake, with a single scan of their binoculars.
This is not a problem of cartography, rather it is a suggestion arising out of literary considerations.
Although WSO is never going to let it in as an official story, as it possesses not a scintilla of eroticism, check out "The Legendary Boater" as an example of the effects a large, irregular-shaped, island and rocky point strewn, lake with several inlets and bays can afford the writer.
Think of the lovers who miss their rendezvous. Think of the boaters who come aground, or worse, sink, and end up keeping each other warm. This is why I want Green Lake to be both irregular and just a bit dangerous for the novice boater.
That is the kind of body I would wish Green Lake to become.
As a movie image, "On Golden Pond" is a popular vision of what Green Lake should be like, seen from the cottagers' point of view.
oops sorry i didn't see your posting before having to relogin yet again to post mine, Quasi.
You make excellent points. Your story The Legendary Boater gives a wonderful visual of the aspects you mention.
(As for whether that story will make it to the formal Submission point, that will come under discussion in the soon to be opened and moved threads in the SDC.)