I hear you -- I'm a midwesterner by transplant, but I've lived in Indiana since 1996 so I suppose I'm a Hoosier.
A couple of years back I had a fantasy story set in a rather generic fantasy-type locale, and it improved exponentially when it ended up set in the Indiana Territory in the early 1800s. That's when I realized that if I want to write about somewhere with which I'm familiar, though I grew up in North Carolina, I've lived away from there long enough that I'm more comfortable writing historical fantasy in my new home state.
But it still pisses me off when people talk about "the south" as if the people there are a bunch of ignorant, racist hicks, and assume if you come from there you should feel very lucky to be anywhere else.
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Date: 2008-07-03 02:42 am (UTC)A couple of years back I had a fantasy story set in a rather generic fantasy-type locale, and it improved exponentially when it ended up set in the Indiana Territory in the early 1800s. That's when I realized that if I want to write about somewhere with which I'm familiar, though I grew up in North Carolina, I've lived away from there long enough that I'm more comfortable writing historical fantasy in my new home state.
But it still pisses me off when people talk about "the south" as if the people there are a bunch of ignorant, racist hicks, and assume if you come from there you should feel very lucky to be anywhere else.
So I suppose I'm bi-regional.