Weekly Plot Help - Week of November 10th

[alison-sky.livejournal.com]

Got a problem in your NaNo? Who doesn't?! But we've got a way to help!

Post here with your plot problems, and all through the week members of the community will scan through and see if they can help.

AKA - The best way to procrastinate is to help others!

So post your problem. Then take a moment to look at everyone else's and see if you can help them.

People helping people. That's what makes this community great :)

So have at it!

Comments

Re: Seattle and Los Angeles Help, Especially Japanese and Hispanics

[majesticjac.livejournal.com]

The main attraction of the U-District will definitely be along the lines of University Way. It's the main street that has most of the shops/restaurants/cafes and is usually called "The Ave". Even just the next street over from The Ave won't have as much. I haven't been around to too many of the cafes in the area, but what stands out to me to tell you about is Trabant, on 45th St. (45th intersects with the Ave. The cafe is half a block off of the Ave...) It's a very cozy place. It's a chai lounge but of course it'll have coffees and teas and the usual. They support a lot of live musicans, they have performances in there pretty often. And it'd get loud/busy around those times, but besides then, it would be a good place to chill with a book.

There's a couple pictures of it here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/trabant-coffee-and-chai-seattle

Where you see the read curtain, the musicians perform infront of there.

I'm not sure how close to the UW library it would be. I've never been to that library (though I'm going this week, oddly enough). But there's a UW bookstore right on the Ave. There's a used bookstore called Twice Sold Tales on the Ave, it would take like a 1 minute to walk there from Trabant. (It wouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to walk from one end of the Ave to the other, if you didn't stop.) Just a few blocks down on 42nd there's another used bookstore called Magus Books. So yeah, there's good book-access. =)

If you made up a cafe, you could put it on the Ave or if you didn't, I'd probably say to place it on 45th or 50th or something. To stay in that area, it would probably be within 3 blocks of the Ave.

As for the international district, most any of the cafes you go to will have fluent-Japanese speaking employess. Uwajimaya is the grocery store there and then there's the Kinokuniya bookstore attached to it that has manga, and upstairs is the imported music selection.

There's a couple bubble tea places there, one's called Gossip and the other is Oasis Tea Zone. I'd personally recommend Oasis, they have baked goods in there, too, and a broader bubble tea section.

As for your down/up/over question, do you mean like how would we refer to California's placement? If that is what you mean, then we'd see "down in California". Is that what you meant?

Okay, pretty sure I covered all your questions. XD If I missed any, just let me know. I need to hurry off to my evening class right now. But still, if you have anymore questions, just ask.

Re: Seattle and Los Angeles Help, Especially Japanese and Hispanics

[runa27.livejournal.com]

Heeee. You are so helpful! XD Thanks especially for the Yelp link, the info on The Ave and the bookstores. That'll help a lot in getting setting details right.

And yeah, the "down in California", that's exactly what I was asking for. :)

*is totally going to print some of these comments tomorrow*

Re: Seattle and Los Angeles Help, Especially Japanese and Hispanics

[majesticjac.livejournal.com]

Awesome, glad I could be of help. :D