The Anchor

The Anchor Bar in downtown New Haven is the kind of place where you feel like you should go and review your notes for your novel or plot a revolution or something. I belonged to a writers group once and we met at the Anchor a few times and it actually felt inspirational. In fact, each one of us were writing stories set in different times (within a 50 year range) and each agreed to include a brief scene in the Anchor, which could include the other storie's characters if we wanted - it was up to the writer. I think the only rule was you couldn't kill another character in the story (which really would have been a huge departure for all of the stories we were writing!) I was actually thinking briefly that my character should have a brief fling in the bar with a character from another book, but that would have changed my book drastically (and would have been waaaaay out of character). Oh well, it was a thought. Check out the Anchor if you are ever in town.