The Northbound write about towns passed at forty miles an hour. Omar Siddiqui writes about Karachi bus routes. Mira Vale writes about a Cornish cottage at dawn.
Specificity is the point
Name the exit, the creek bed, the diner. The geography is not backdrop—it is the subject.
Write where you are
Bellingham, Delhi, Glasgow, Oakland. The place you know is the place worth writing about.
The listener recognizes
Even if they have never been to your creek bed, they know the feeling of a place that stays with you after you leave.
