In the original text of Theo of Golden, I had a detailed description— too detailed, we concluded — of the Promenade, the median where Theo met with recipients of his bestowals.

It helped me to have mental and visual images of the places where the action of the story took place. The median in my hometown of Columbus, GA, after which Golden is patterned, was my overall template but the median seemed too narrow and crowded for the scenes I had in mind. Here’s one of the sketches I drew to give me a frame of reference as I wrote.