Bookkeeping: Lynch
Jul. 28th, 2012 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineToday, I started a storyboard for Lynch, using photos of actual structures to reconstruct the cityscape as Jody and Martha would have seen it in 1909. (The joy of working in a near-real-time setting; I don't have to make everything up from whole cloth!) Not much of the old downtown business district is intact, as you might expect after better than a hundred years, but there are several blocks where I have a string of connected facades.
I've also got one character photo picked out, an image I collected from a newspaper more than a year ago, and I've located several others I'll be printing and adding to the storyboard in the next week.
I'm struck all over again, after looking at several photos of the day, just how treeless the cities of that era were. People were still cooking with wood, and wood for building came from local sources, and the farms came right up to the city limits (or inside them). The sorts of urban landscape we're used to, including lots of trees, just didn't exist. I have to remember that when I think about lines of sight in the city, especially the residential areas.
This wasn't even displacement activity - I got my words before I got out the foam core board and tape. I'll withhold patting myself on the back, though; I'm back to work on Monday, and Mondays are proven obstacles to getting any writing done.
New words: 728
Total words: 9841
Mean things: having to prove, yet again, that he's not lying.
Research: women in period costume; trolley cars and routes.
I've also got one character photo picked out, an image I collected from a newspaper more than a year ago, and I've located several others I'll be printing and adding to the storyboard in the next week.
I'm struck all over again, after looking at several photos of the day, just how treeless the cities of that era were. People were still cooking with wood, and wood for building came from local sources, and the farms came right up to the city limits (or inside them). The sorts of urban landscape we're used to, including lots of trees, just didn't exist. I have to remember that when I think about lines of sight in the city, especially the residential areas.
This wasn't even displacement activity - I got my words before I got out the foam core board and tape. I'll withhold patting myself on the back, though; I'm back to work on Monday, and Mondays are proven obstacles to getting any writing done.
New words: 728
Total words: 9841
Mean things: having to prove, yet again, that he's not lying.
Research: women in period costume; trolley cars and routes.
