Okay so this weekend, I tried to plot out more bits of the We Don’t Talk About Book Club universe which started as a kind of Nanowrimo dare type one-shot story. It was supposed to be a self-contained fun one-shot story.
To the complete lack of surprise to my beta-readers, it did not remain a one-shot. So my plan this weekend was going back to kind of figure out more about the world and overarching conflicts and some of those behind the scenes moving parts. The universe is quite popular among some of my Patrons so I had picked one of the earlier stories that hadn’t gotten fleshed out yet to focus on. Outlining it out on the whiteboard ( because my brain wasn’t being a help much this weekend) revealed several things that I had not previously known before.
There is apparently a constabulary type organization in my shadow world and one of the MC’s not-a-boyfriend’s is one of them. That my MC has a particular hate-on for some of those folk that ties back to her choosing a mostly mundane life up until then. That incubi lore is rather thin on the ground if you’re trying to not use the Catholic mythologies and don’t have access to certain books (I’m ILL-ing one of them and put one on my list of books to buy when I start buying books again).
Also that there’s a wedding I semi-forgot about and in the process of figuring out all of the above, also realizing that I’ve created the perfect circumstances for an inter-dimensional war. My goal was actually to try and make things less complicated, not more. Failing at that is pretty on brand for me.
Writing is not for the faint of heart, ya’ll.