Road Trip to NaNo: Lend Duality to Your Characters

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November is coming. To get ready, we’re taking a Road Trip to NaNoWriMo. On the way, we’ll hear from writers about how their cities can inspire your novel. Today, R.J., Municipal Liaison for Montreal, Quebec discusses how to get your character into—and out of—trouble:

Entering downtown Montreal is like stepping through a time machine. The old port brings you straight to the 1600s: where architectural elegance usurped function, and everything was made of stone. And these stones have stories to tell—showing the stains of floodwaters from as far back as 1642. The port looms on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, where the industrial and colonial eras meet in old basilicas, war-scarred hospitals, and a sense of antiquity that can charm and delight.

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(via nanowrimo)