Writing Meme: Day Twelve.

Day Twelve: In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?

You know, I've been thinking on this all day and I still don't have an answer. Everything I write is set in the real world. If I can find it on Google Maps and Google Earth, I'll use it. I've set my stories all over the world and in the known universe: Rome, Italy; Sydney, Australia; Vatican City, Italy; Duneedan, Scotland; Cambridge, England; Mt Brocken, Germany; Russia; Paris, France; the planets of Saturn and Jupiter.

So I haven't really created a world per se, but I've used everything I could find through researching about existing locations to fill out my stories. I think the place I've fallen in love with the most has been the catacombs underneath Paris. Some sites with information and photos of this incredible place are below.

Flickr set with some excellent background information.
Val de Grace room photos.
Cataphiles in the catacombs.
Urbains de la ville de Paris et alentours. (In French.)
Les salles. (Photo galleries in French of some of the rooms in the catacombs.)
Port Mahon in the catacombs.
Thirty Hours Under Paris - weblog report with photos.
Catas.
Paris Underground.

Oh dear. That's rather a lot of links. Oops! I think you can tell how much I love this place and how fascinated I am by it.

Writing Meme: Day Twelve.

Day Twelve: In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?

You know, I've been thinking on this all day and I still don't have an answer. Everything I write is set in the real world. If I can find it on Google Maps and Google Earth, I'll use it. I've set my stories all over the world and in the known universe: Rome, Italy; Sydney, Australia; Vatican City, Italy; Duneedan, Scotland; Cambridge, England; Mt Brocken, Germany; Russia; Paris, France; the planets of Saturn and Jupiter.

So I haven't really created a world per se, but I've used everything I could find through researching about existing locations to fill out my stories. I think the place I've fallen in love with the most has been the catacombs underneath Paris. Some sites with information and photos of this incredible place are below.

Flickr set with some excellent background information.
Val de Grace room photos.
Cataphiles in the catacombs.
Urbains de la ville de Paris et alentours. (In French.)
Les salles. (Photo galleries in French of some of the rooms in the catacombs.)
Port Mahon in the catacombs.
Thirty Hours Under Paris - weblog report with photos.
Catas.
Paris Underground.

Oh dear. That's rather a lot of links. Oops! I think you can tell how much I love this place and how fascinated I am by it.