Take a travel book from another era, about a distant place or city you know, want to visit or have some idea of, real or mythic.
Leaf through the pages of the book, read chapter headings, opening paragraphs, let sentences catch your eye. Read on as you like. Allow the feeling of the book, its sense of the place, the time, fill you.
Notice observations of change within the text. Notes of regret, nostalgia and delight for what remains and is discovered new.
Imagine yourself into the narrators voice, his or her viewpoint, perspective.
Begin to write of your city or place as though you were this writer. See your place through their eyes, tell of it in their language.
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