Creating a fictional world from the real world: Each of these settings is real, and serve as the fictional worlds of current and future novels. It’s one helpful way for writers to visualize their books’ “world.”
Scott Douglas Martell
The following photographs show various scenes that could very well be seen in every day life in our Ethiopia and Vietnam novel series.
Ethiopia, Countryside
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My student’s home 
On the way to Fana Falls 
Fields of mountain wheat 
Acacia thorns 
A student’s home before the community helped … 
…new home being built 
Mystic’s cave dwelling 
Lake Are Shetan 
Making false banana kojo 
Gurage Mountains 
Working with livestock 
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Mountain school 
On the way to town 
Teacher Bihailu trekking 
Scott and Nesrela 2007
Ethiopia, Project Mercy School
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Outdoor teaching 
Assembly 
Scott and the boys… 
General Getachew 
Teacher Behailu 
Student work 
Student Adane 
Teachers 
Sports! 
Alemseged HIV testing 
Barbara Bush (Jr.) visits 
Three boys 
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
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Extreme urban elderly poverty 
Hanging out at Addis Ababa University 
Young scholarship students 
Orthodox Church Addis Ababa
My Ethiopian Students from Yetebon Village to Butajira to Addis Ababa!
My Vietnamese Students GEC
Vietnam, Lyson Island
Next up will be a suspense series in Vietnam, specifically Lyson Island and the new UNESCO geopark proposed for this area.
Breakfast Ly Son Island 
Volcanic shoreline 
South China Sea 
Spiritual Lyson Island–land of contrasts.
Quang Ngai Walking Park
Day or night, in tropical heat or rainy winter, this park is an active exercise and social area for this town’s citizens. This is a country that values exercise, and beauty.
