Today I am heading off to a town I know of, and have visited previously, but don’t know really well. And because my novel is set in a town quite close to the one I’m visiting, I may well find some way to get some of what I do in my visit, into my current novel-in-progress …
And because I will be going to something, a strawberry fete, that I haven’t been to before, I’ll be looking carefully at what happens at this event, so if I every decide to run one (in my novel series), then I know what happens at them. Or if I decide to have one myself, of course! Haha, that will not happen!
I imagine doing this successfully requires lots of hard work from dedicated volunteers, and an ‘official’ who gives lots of support for the event. As I type this, I’m thinking about the characters in my “At Talloola” Cosy Murder Mystery series, and how they would fit into such an event.
The joys of writing a novel, nothing experienced is ever wasted, no matter how it goes, because you can use everything, to make it seem real. So yes, the Owen Strawberry Fete, here I come!
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Well my visit to the Owen Strawberry Fete certainly showed me how a good Mayor works within his community. I know the Mayor of Talloola, the made up town where my Cosy Murder Mysteries are set, would certainly never work hard selling plants on a stall with volunteers! The Deputy Mayor of Talloola would though, and I can definitely picture him being involved with a similar event happening in Talloola at some stage in a book later on in the series …
So it was well worth heading off there with a friend, we both had a fine time, getting ourselves some strawberries and other things. I love these community organised things, because you never know who or what may pop up!
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