Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20130628215430

Read the article -- certainly ineresting, but unfortunately not terribly useful. Most of the violence took place in the northern and eastern departments; most of my story takes place in the jungles at the base of the mountains in southwest Colombia, mostly in southern Caqueta, Putumayo, and/or northwestern Amazonas. They'll also won't be in-country during that time -- their initial expedition takes place sometime in the 1880s (haven't picked a specific date yet, if I ever do), but I'm pretty sure they will no longer be in-country come 1899. They'll be back, but not for some time.

My timeline is so weird. It's also non-linear and I have three main characters between whom I switch POVs -- Clara is the mother, William is the father, and Audrey is the daughter. I begin with Audrey, at her mother's funeral and years after William's death and then being swept up into a grand adventure by an old companion of her mother's, then I jump back to William when he's first organizing the expedition, then I'm Clara, who's torn between searching for him while he's missing and raising her young daughter (meanwhile revealing a lot of the mysteries I leave the reader with after leaving Audrey's POV early on), then I skip back to the "present" (1923-24), when Audrey and Desmond (Clara's old companion) are about to find themselves in some deep, deep shit. Then, once I get them into a world of trouble, I haven't quite figured out how it will end for them.

Why am I choosing to set it in turn-of-the-last-century Colombia? Because it's based loosely on an old, long-dead RP that took place in Fanaglia and Colombia, oddly enough, was the closest thing in the real world that I could find to my scenario in southwestern Fanaglia. Fortunately, it's pretty damn close. Unfortunately, it's not exactly something they taught us in school and I've a bit of research to do, lol.

Documentaries are best, btw. Especially travel and nature documentaries. Historical documentaries are nice, too, of course. Anything about Latin America will do, but specifically the Colombia/Ecuador/Panama/Brazil region is preferable, especially if it's specifically in the southwestern Colombian departments I mentioned above.