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Trying to put people in New York
Jul. 19th, 2012 09:50 amAvengers: Stark Tower is above Grand Central Station where the real MetLife building is.
So if I want people to randomly bump into an Avenger on the street, somewhere near their tower makes sense.
I have in my head a picture of the character I'm trying to introduce doing charity collection in a park in lots of sunshine, and meeting Steve, who is of course interested in all good works and stops to chat.
So google maps has a little bit of green park outside the public library a six minute walk away. Okays. Green and sunshine. And books, so Steve has a reason to be there.
Huh, there's the lions, I know that place.
That was in the Spiderman movies.
... I think I just dropped the little google streetview guy exactly where Uncle Ben got shot. *blinks*
Wiki says that green bit is frequently the most densely occupied urban park in the world. New character wants to bump into a lot of people, so that would work.
What I don't know and haven't a clue how to google is where charity people tend to congregate in New York. Do they need permits? Do they get moved along a lot? Are there places people tend to hang out and explain things earnestly to passerby? Does America have an equivalent of Big Issue salesmen?
This is why I prefer to set stuff in Norwich. I know exactly which corners you'd find Big Issue people, charity tin people, people with clipboards, and buskers of varying degrees of skill. At least I do around the market. And I know that Morrisons usually has charity people around the doors, sort of alternating with electricity or insurance sales people, and sometimes people stop for a chat but it's unusual. The same thing wouldn't happen in the other supermarkets even, so I can't just generalise to other countries.
Also: Education.
If someone is going to stop and have a Serious Talk about Social Justice, carrying a beat up backpack of a type suitable for laptop computers, what hoodie are they wearing and where do they study?
There's socio economic implications to all the options in Norwich, and I haven't a clue where to start figuring out the equivalents in New York.
Like, mature student in a City College hoodie... is actually probably not on a sociology degree course, the color coding is mostly for the vocational people. And the UEA has a shop that sells all sorts of things with UEA writ on them but I don't tend to see people wearing them around. Hmmm, maybe they need generic hoodie and holding a college branded folder. They give those to all new students even at CCN.
ANYways, instant clues to this person, I don't know how to make them.
Where would a newly political very earnest mature student of modest means be going?
Obviously I could just skip to the fight scenes, but I got stuck imagining the first glance.
... I was planning to not even write this thing, but I appear to have at least 5/6 of a plot, and it seems stuck in my head. *shrugs*
So if I want people to randomly bump into an Avenger on the street, somewhere near their tower makes sense.
I have in my head a picture of the character I'm trying to introduce doing charity collection in a park in lots of sunshine, and meeting Steve, who is of course interested in all good works and stops to chat.
So google maps has a little bit of green park outside the public library a six minute walk away. Okays. Green and sunshine. And books, so Steve has a reason to be there.
Huh, there's the lions, I know that place.
That was in the Spiderman movies.
... I think I just dropped the little google streetview guy exactly where Uncle Ben got shot. *blinks*
Wiki says that green bit is frequently the most densely occupied urban park in the world. New character wants to bump into a lot of people, so that would work.
What I don't know and haven't a clue how to google is where charity people tend to congregate in New York. Do they need permits? Do they get moved along a lot? Are there places people tend to hang out and explain things earnestly to passerby? Does America have an equivalent of Big Issue salesmen?
This is why I prefer to set stuff in Norwich. I know exactly which corners you'd find Big Issue people, charity tin people, people with clipboards, and buskers of varying degrees of skill. At least I do around the market. And I know that Morrisons usually has charity people around the doors, sort of alternating with electricity or insurance sales people, and sometimes people stop for a chat but it's unusual. The same thing wouldn't happen in the other supermarkets even, so I can't just generalise to other countries.
Also: Education.
If someone is going to stop and have a Serious Talk about Social Justice, carrying a beat up backpack of a type suitable for laptop computers, what hoodie are they wearing and where do they study?
There's socio economic implications to all the options in Norwich, and I haven't a clue where to start figuring out the equivalents in New York.
Like, mature student in a City College hoodie... is actually probably not on a sociology degree course, the color coding is mostly for the vocational people. And the UEA has a shop that sells all sorts of things with UEA writ on them but I don't tend to see people wearing them around. Hmmm, maybe they need generic hoodie and holding a college branded folder. They give those to all new students even at CCN.
ANYways, instant clues to this person, I don't know how to make them.
Where would a newly political very earnest mature student of modest means be going?
Obviously I could just skip to the fight scenes, but I got stuck imagining the first glance.
... I was planning to not even write this thing, but I appear to have at least 5/6 of a plot, and it seems stuck in my head. *shrugs*