That train of thought moved so fast I can't remember now what station it pulled out of. Something about having an urban fantasy setting for a story (book or series).
Okay, I think I have where it started. Urban fantasies are often based on a real city. And I immediately balked at using, say, San Francisco, and having all the other locals complaining I got everything wrong. So...what about a real-seeming city?
Call it Blakeville. Where there's a huge and not-entirely-upright scientific research facility for our plot convenience. No, wait. This is supposed to be an urban fantasy. So how about this is where two worlds meet; there's the equivalent in a powerful coven or magic school or some-such to the hotbed of made science across town. So this is where the worlds of science and magic meet.
A focus point, even. No, a tipping point. A place where it will be decided which way the world will go. And we see the alternatives. We visit the alternatives...so this isn't just one city, it is three cities in one; the world which took the technology path, the world that took the magical path. With many of the same people and organizations and even buildings (there's a lot of leakage between the dimensions in this spot!) but in ways appropriate to the dark industrial cyber-future or the ruled-by-the-fae, not-so-nice, fantasy world.
Anyhow.
In between trying to write the book I'm actually supposed to be writing, I've been looking up which POD people can do a pocketbook format (4.25" x 6.87" in the US). Been thinking about breaking out of Amazon and distributing through a couple of other options anyhow.
There's a terrible feature creep about all those thoughts, though. Because I think about doing another edit pass before I go to print, or maybe a big top-down edit with Developmental Editor and all, plus of course new cover designs (because it is always new cover designs). And when I look at all that, and my seemingly ever-shrinking me time, I realize once again that the smartest thing to do seems to be to finish the book I'm on.
After I recover from the brain fog of some kind of virus. Had to take another day off work (sigh). Couldn't focus so ended up playing a bunch of Pimp My Airship...I mean, Forever Skies. Which I tried out in Early Access and the 1.0 just dropped.
And in-game caught the one disease I didn't have the materials to craft a cure for. So was piloting my airship around the ruined Earth, crawling up and down rusted catwalks, searching for the one damned melon while fainting away every few minutes from the damned disease. That was fun. And for once, when I found the melons, they dropped seeds for me and I could add them to my garden for future need.
The in-game me found a cure before the out-of-game me recovered. Work today was...not much fun. And now I wrap it up staring at a blank page and trying to make even a little progress on the current novel.
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