Ben Clark
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Marc Cameron:
Hey Marc, could you give us a little insight into how you choose some of the awesome locations you portray in your novel? Do you look for someplace picturesque or do you run the characters through the action and it unfolds to locals based on the where the plot needs to go. I guess a chicken and egg kinda question.
Marc Cameron
Ben, just saw this... Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I'm bad about checking in here.
I often see places in my travel and think, "this would be a great place for a motorcycle chase, foot pursuit, body-dump..." Those places generally end up in whatever I'm working on at the time. Sometimes, the stories take the characters to places I hadn't quite intended at first. Then, it's cool to do research on the little things that are the unknown unknowns about the area--the questions I wouldn't have known to ask without going there or at least talking to several people who have been there.
I often see places in my travel and think, "this would be a great place for a motorcycle chase, foot pursuit, body-dump..." Those places generally end up in whatever I'm working on at the time. Sometimes, the stories take the characters to places I hadn't quite intended at first. Then, it's cool to do research on the little things that are the unknown unknowns about the area--the questions I wouldn't have known to ask without going there or at least talking to several people who have been there.
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