Liath notes
Oct. 17th, 2009 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynhefarWell, apparently I have pretty decent intuition. When I first started writing the Liath story, I hadn't moved to Louisiana yet, and so the Black Rose was located pretty much in an as-yet-unnamed random city. Once I'd moved here and been to New Orleans a few times, I realised it was the perfect setting, and I could tie in all kinds of Post-Katrina stuff that really worked well with the plot. After all, if you were a magical being compelled to ease the emotional burdens of traumatised humans what better place (assuming you were in the US) than New Orleans after Katrina -- practically an entire city suffering from PTSD. I'm not trying to be flippant - I was close enough to what happened to know some of what Katrina did to people around here emotionally, and it would make sense for Liath to move to a city where she was most needed.
So once I'd settled on New Orleans as the location (and where else would you put a bar like the Black Rose but in the French Quarter?) I started looking for an actual address to give it. The wonderfully named Pirate's Alley jumped out at me from the map, and I *really* wanted to place it there. However, I'm big on being as realistic as possible, and I've never actually been to Pirate's Alley. So it was there in the back of my mind, but I hadn't put it down on paper until I could get a chance to go down to NO to check it out.
And then today I find this:
That's an image of Pirate's Alley. It's *perfect*. I don't think I could have chosen a better street for the Black Rose if I'd designed it myself. I still intend to take a trip down there to see it in person, but really. You can't get much better than that.
So once I'd settled on New Orleans as the location (and where else would you put a bar like the Black Rose but in the French Quarter?) I started looking for an actual address to give it. The wonderfully named Pirate's Alley jumped out at me from the map, and I *really* wanted to place it there. However, I'm big on being as realistic as possible, and I've never actually been to Pirate's Alley. So it was there in the back of my mind, but I hadn't put it down on paper until I could get a chance to go down to NO to check it out.
And then today I find this:
That's an image of Pirate's Alley. It's *perfect*. I don't think I could have chosen a better street for the Black Rose if I'd designed it myself. I still intend to take a trip down there to see it in person, but really. You can't get much better than that.
