Question: Using real locale

[jinkang.livejournal.com]

I was reading up a novel and realized the author lives in my home town. And that's because I recognized the streets and some of the buildings he described. It was done well, but I realized I walked the streets that the main characters were walking.

Now, when this happens, do you find the fiction you were reading somehow less real or more real?

Because sometimes, when I read, I am immersed in the fictional world and rather not be reminded of the reality. Some other times, I realize such things build realism, because they are in fact based on the real world geography.

By the way, I don't mean by really famous places like Eiffel tower or Swiss Alps, or Machu Pichu. (personally only been to two from the list), but more of some random streets or a neat side street that only 'local' people would know.

Gotta love them stickie notes

[awriter12.livejournal.com]

So since I have put my self on a schedule to finish this story and hopefully get the second draft on its way after some much needed editing and plot hole patch ups. I have mostly today actually started using sticky notes. I have a pad of them beside me right now, and they are possibly the most wonderful thing right now.

Usually I use cue card/ recipe card and I write on them and stick them up on my cork board( I have a major school sized one in my bedroom...it is currently full with another stories characters and plots and such) but I have found the great thing about sticky notes and that is hat they are STICKY, I've probably got about nine or ten attached to the page I just wrote with like simple things like D=lb so A=db therefore And=ab? now I know those don't make a lick of sense to anyone here simply because I have not posted anything about this story on here. But that's besides the point.

Now that I have all of these obscure little sticky notes all over my page, I'm wondering if I remember what half of them will mean when I go through and write the second draft? It's a possibility that some of them will have the most likely reaction of WTF? Such as one that is cat=mother?=Da+Dar=A. But that ones just a reminder to me while I write for this week.

So I'm wondering how you guys/galls organize little notes, do you use Sticky notes? Recipe cards? Do you just put a note in your computer? On your cellphone? On a voice recorder?