Hey /lit/ so long story short I'm writing a novel that takes

>>8329966

Salem

Make up your own place. Do you really want to be cross checking your setting with the place's actual history every time you decide to add a detail? Make the whole damn thing.

>>8329966
>Location
>1692

Any New England town could work

>>8329966
Do it the Hawthorne way
>do some genealogical research
>go to your ancestral hometown
>read the old records
>bitch and moan about the ways of your ancestors
>write something Faulkner/Lovecraft-tier-weird
>tack on some corny moralistic bullshit at the end

>>8329992
Yeah I'm probably doing this. I don't feel like going through fucktons of research for a story that only takes place during that period due to the killing people for no reason factor

>>8330048
Sounds like a shit story senpai.
Scrap it.

>>8330077
I just realized The way I said It made it sound really retarded. it does not take place just for that killing factor.