Day Four

I'm doing The Strange Tale of Doctor Dog (I bet everyone is sick of me mentioning it now). And as you all know (or at least you should know), my story is going to be in France, of course. I'm planning on placing this story in a small village. A village, where the trees are green, the houses are plain, the villagers are friendly, and the fields next to the village are green, lush, and all around beautiful. Not quite sure where this village is, though. I won't put it in Paris, that's so vague and overused. I'll just put it perhaps in the city of Nice or Lyon, which aren't that popular.

The Village is something like this.

The characters Mr. Mérille (Min) and Honeysuckle are going to live in a small house, which is also where most of the dialogue will be. Well, a small house next to the forest where Mr. Chien kidnaps Honeysuckle. The forest will be dark and gloomy, to make the search for Mr. Mérille's daughter more exciting since the villagers (except for the caring Mr. Mérille) will not want to search for her adding a bit of a "Will she ever be found?" sort of feeling. Oh yea, the house will also be next to a green field where Honeysuckle flies her kites.


Mr. Chien will live in a great big palace (or castle....) and his castle will be painted blue and red and it will be surrounded by lots of healthy green trees (to make his character to look more benevolent, of course). The castle will also be the last place in the story (a.k.a. the final setting...).

His castle will look something like this.

My location? Hmm...Well the location will stay in the same old village, but during the end of the story Mr. Mérille (Ok I'm sick of saying this name...) will find Honeysuckle in the wonderful castle of Mr. Chien.


The weather will be fairly simple: the sun will shine while the father and daughter are together, and when Honeysuckle (Wow I'm sick of saying this name too...) is kidnapped the weather in the village will turn rainy and depressing to match with Mr. Mérille's (really sick of this name now...) sadness/loneliness.


When...well, it's certainly not going to be in modern times (neither will any other story, I'm sure) so I'm going to make the village into an old world village...sort of medieval. The women will wear dresses, men will wear raggedy clothes, etc. There will be wells, archery, schools, and primitive kites. 


I'm really enjoying writing this story! I know it'll come out great =D


Have a nice day!