Using Company Websites and Blogs: Shasta Pools
Posted by LMReviewsJan 15
Welcome back!
As writers, we take the slightest detail to make our character’s lives more authentic. I mentioned in the Details of Writing post how researching an element within your character’s home environment can tell the reader something about the character and his or her lifestyle. In that instance we were talking about pools for stories set in warm-climate settings.
Still focusing on that warm setting, additional research of the Shasta Pools website or blog maybe required when describing the type of pool or the current technology of the pool for the time period in which your story is set.
For example, Shasta Pools has been in existence since 1968. Since that time company has been responsible for many different pool designs. However, if you are modeling your character’s pool after a negative-edge pool or a self-cleaning pool you researched on the Shasta Pools website, but your story is based in the 1980’s, your character’s pool will stick out like a prickly cactus in your story.
Keeping up with the evolution of companies and their products is a great way to keep your stories accurate.
