Doing a location justice
In the short story I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, I set part of the story in a place I have never been, the town of Churchill, Manitoba. Churchill is about as far North as you can go on the Train. I’ve done some reading about Churchill, and have tried to portray the people there as….well, people. But I don’t really have a sense of what the town is like, what it feels like to walk through its streets.
A part of me feels like I should go there, just to experience it, so that I can write more accurately about it.
BUT, going there is not cheap. There are no roads that lead to Churchill. You can pretty much only get there by train, and the return ticket is very expensive (over $1000). That doesn’t include a hotel and food.
And so, I must bow to my pocketbook, and forget going there (at least not for the foreseeable future). No research of that sort for me. I’ll just have to do what I have been doing: use my imagination, and hope I’m doing alright.
