Setting is important
So, I'm hard at work on a sequel to Flash-A Death Story. That book takes place in Chicago, but I needed a setting, remote, creepy, hard to get to, and only a few people know about.
What perfect places than my old haunts as an art student at LSU? The painting students have their studios in a very old building along with ceramics and sculpture. We essentially worked in an old foundry with flaking lead paint, asbestos, broken windows, one fan in the corner for ventilation, and no heating and air conditioning systems in the southern heat.
What's even more interesting about the building other than the brutal conditions they expect the art students to work in is that there is a hidden 4th floor. The staircase goes up 3 floors, but if you find the hidden ladder and climb it, you can get to an entire deserted 4th floor with dust everywhere and random graffiti. No one knows what it was meant for or why the stairs don't go there.
There is also a tunnel system underneath campus. One of the entrances to the tunnel system is at the art building. The tunnels were meant to have steam pipes and the like, but now they are just creepy and have random graffiti where people have broken in.
I've also taken ballet classes at the fieldhouse looking out the window at the deserted Huey P Long pool. I've also done an installation art piece there as part of one of my art classes. At the time, it was one of the biggest pools in the country, had raquetball studios, and the ballet studio I was in had all sorts of arches and was a ballroom.
The pool is now in worse condition than the art building. The pool has been drained and forgotten about. Almost every surface is covered is dirt and graffiti if you know the secret way in (I do). All of the gates and entrances are padlocked shut, but there's one secret way to get in if you have the know how. You just have to make sure you can actually get out once you've gotten in.
So, I've got those three locations. The secret 4th floor, the tunnels, and an abandoned pool that I have people waking up in a blackout in and murders happening in on of the raquetball courts.
Right in front of the fieldhouse buildings are two Indian mounds from the middle Archaic period. No one knows much about them except they are there and they are not burial sites. The Indian mounds are right across from the field house and a few buildings away from the art building.
I've come up with a symbol that ties every single on of these locations together, but I haven't exactly gotten to the point that I know what it means and all the pieces are in place. I sit down with a basic idea and just write as the ideas come. It will come eventually, its just not there yet
What perfect places than my old haunts as an art student at LSU? The painting students have their studios in a very old building along with ceramics and sculpture. We essentially worked in an old foundry with flaking lead paint, asbestos, broken windows, one fan in the corner for ventilation, and no heating and air conditioning systems in the southern heat.
What's even more interesting about the building other than the brutal conditions they expect the art students to work in is that there is a hidden 4th floor. The staircase goes up 3 floors, but if you find the hidden ladder and climb it, you can get to an entire deserted 4th floor with dust everywhere and random graffiti. No one knows what it was meant for or why the stairs don't go there.
There is also a tunnel system underneath campus. One of the entrances to the tunnel system is at the art building. The tunnels were meant to have steam pipes and the like, but now they are just creepy and have random graffiti where people have broken in.
I've also taken ballet classes at the fieldhouse looking out the window at the deserted Huey P Long pool. I've also done an installation art piece there as part of one of my art classes. At the time, it was one of the biggest pools in the country, had raquetball studios, and the ballet studio I was in had all sorts of arches and was a ballroom.
The pool is now in worse condition than the art building. The pool has been drained and forgotten about. Almost every surface is covered is dirt and graffiti if you know the secret way in (I do). All of the gates and entrances are padlocked shut, but there's one secret way to get in if you have the know how. You just have to make sure you can actually get out once you've gotten in.
So, I've got those three locations. The secret 4th floor, the tunnels, and an abandoned pool that I have people waking up in a blackout in and murders happening in on of the raquetball courts.
Right in front of the fieldhouse buildings are two Indian mounds from the middle Archaic period. No one knows much about them except they are there and they are not burial sites. The Indian mounds are right across from the field house and a few buildings away from the art building.
I've come up with a symbol that ties every single on of these locations together, but I haven't exactly gotten to the point that I know what it means and all the pieces are in place. I sit down with a basic idea and just write as the ideas come. It will come eventually, its just not there yet
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