Rockaway Beach, OR Mark and I just returned from a week-long vacation to the Pacific Northwest which involved many modes of transportation: an Amtrak sleeper car, a couple of taxicabs, a Hertz rental car, and a drive-aboard BC Ferry ride. This "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" trip made me think about transportation - or rather, how writers use transportation to convey important information about our characters' lives, attitudes, abilities and worldviews. Here are a couple of examples from my Underbelly Chronicles series: TASTE ME's hero, incubus security guru Lukas Sebastiani, is linebacker-sized, and has a need for speed: "Come on, we need to get inside." He scoped out the parking lot and the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and then stood in front of her to cut off as many angles as he could with his body. She eyed the space between them. "Can you give me a little room, please?" "No." She sighed. "What's u...
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