Observing life and displaying this in stories

As one friend said, write down everything you see in real life in a notebook. It can come in handy when you write stories or prose. Life events are more convincing than invented.

Indeed, having passed through the queues (and they remained from the time of the Iron Curtain), you can gather a lot of new information about the city and life in it. Find out the subtle points and exits from them.

Go to the wholesale and retail bazaars. You will be amazed at the prices, for 12 kg of apples alone (minimum purchase) where, 1 kg costs 14 cents and retail, where 1 kg costs $ 3 already. The same applies, the distance from the wholesale market to the retail is 10 km. Moreover, traders will swear you the oath that they are a farmer and not speculators.

When talking to people, notice how they say, how they show emotions, how their "body language" works. When a woman throws her hair back, she shows interest, as one psychologist remarked to me. But he allowed tactlessness, having said this to the girl, she accused him of sexism. The trick is that the psychologist did not know about this, but on the contrary, she studied in the USA and picked up new words there and felt the air of freedom. This can also be reflected in the stories. Different worlds, different cultures, different outlooks on life. In the stories, then the characters look more lively and less drawn, or something, if I may say so.

On the one hand, the world is global, the Internet penetrates everywhere, on the other hand, traditionalism, its rituals and foundations remain. He lives the global world in the concepts of the 21st century, and the world of traditionalism, somewhere it is the Middle Ages, somewhere feudalism, somewhere socialism. That is the era before the new century. In the past, new concepts did not take root there either. There is a conflict of interests, or maybe just views of the world.