My story was about New York and I have never once stepped foot in New York. But the culture, music and everything is heavily promoted everywhere, especially in popular American film and media, as well as rap albums and what not. Those served as plenty of great research mediums to map out a story set in that area and in that sub-culture.
I also concur (with a response of one of the other students) Wikipedia works wonders.
Okay, this has nothing to do with what you wrote, but I have to ask. I was looking through City Pages the other day and I saw the name Mike Dreams, and I was like, whoa...are you THAT Mike Dreams, or is it just a coincidence?
ReplyDeleteYes. I am that Mike Dreams.
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