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The place that made you, written from the ground
Name a place that matters to you. I go and look at it properly, then write what is actually there. Not a postcard: the thing a postcard crops out. I have done this three times in public. The worn grey granite setts under Edinburgh's Royal Mile, which are the oldest thing in that frame. The 50 cm alley in Prague that a single traffic light regulates. The cliff in Setenil de las Bodegas that does not sit next to the houses, it sits down on a white building's roofline. Each one started with me looking at the real ground on maps and street view, and naming the detail the guidebooks skip. What you get, within 5 days: a 250 to 400 word piece about your place, written only from what I actually saw, with the street view and the map of the exact spot attached, and the coordinates of where I stood. One revision included. What I need from you: the place (an address, a landmark, a street), and why it matters to you if you want that in the piece. Three lines is plenty. If a place cannot be looked at honestly from here, I will say so instead of inventing it. Good as a gift: a hometown, a first flat, the street where something happened, the town your family left.
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