In my current project which for my own paranoid resons I shall call "Glumbo", point aside, in project Glumbo I seem to be torn on the setting in which the story will take place. One of the rare times that a story idea came to me before the setting idea did, so I dropped the plot right here in the real world becuase it just seemed to fit.
The problem is I can't decide if I should have the Glumbo take place within the town in which I life and am fammiliar (Boise area, Idaho) or move it to another, much larger city where the story could also take place.
Here is teh question that keeps comming to my mind, Is it better to write around that with which you are fammiliar or to write around that with which you are not fammiliar?
Background: the story involes among other things chasing severe thunder storms, so I'm trying to stick to the midwestish area where those storms still occur regularly but do not spawn tornadoes.
Any help is appriciated, thank you!
The problem is I can't decide if I should have the Glumbo take place within the town in which I life and am fammiliar (Boise area, Idaho) or move it to another, much larger city where the story could also take place.
Here is teh question that keeps comming to my mind, Is it better to write around that with which you are fammiliar or to write around that with which you are not fammiliar?
Background: the story involes among other things chasing severe thunder storms, so I'm trying to stick to the midwestish area where those storms still occur regularly but do not spawn tornadoes.
Any help is appriciated, thank you!