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January was not the greatest month for writing - I managed 14 days, and only 1,718 words, mostly on an ongoing serial. A friend threw me for six when she suggested that I should shift my attention to my Urban-Fantasy/Sci-Fi mash-up instead of just the straight Urban Fantasy I've been working on, since the straight Urban Fantasy market is so saturated, and I want to build my world in a way publishers won't be comfortable with, and also the success of Gideon the Ninth has probably opened the door for 'magic in space' as a more common theme.
And... I think she's right. I'm also not sure how well my urban fantasy project would play since it's more 'police procedural which happens to have magical creatures in it'. The Odd Squad don't actively police the supernatural community (the community does that themselves), they're there for the cases where there's some overlap - if someone dumps a body in a lake that happens to contain a minor water-deity then that deity is going to be pissy enough without normal police questioning about why they happened to be in the area. The Odd Squad can placate them and get the info without six weeks of rain and a plague on all our houses. The normal cops are going to focus on a witness who fled the scene, whereas the Odd Squad know exactly why a nightwalker-vampire legged it twenty minutes before sunrise and won't waste police time following that false lead to the far end of a fart. And so on. It's a question of whether urban fantasy readers will be disappointed because there aren't any big battles, threats to the world in general, etc. whereas police procedural readers won't pick it up because it's urban fantasy.
Also I need to decide whether I'm going to use a specific short story for my writing group anthology, or keep it for a competition by a local publisher, and what to write instead... Feck it all.
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And... I think she's right. I'm also not sure how well my urban fantasy project would play since it's more 'police procedural which happens to have magical creatures in it'. The Odd Squad don't actively police the supernatural community (the community does that themselves), they're there for the cases where there's some overlap - if someone dumps a body in a lake that happens to contain a minor water-deity then that deity is going to be pissy enough without normal police questioning about why they happened to be in the area. The Odd Squad can placate them and get the info without six weeks of rain and a plague on all our houses. The normal cops are going to focus on a witness who fled the scene, whereas the Odd Squad know exactly why a nightwalker-vampire legged it twenty minutes before sunrise and won't waste police time following that false lead to the far end of a fart. And so on. It's a question of whether urban fantasy readers will be disappointed because there aren't any big battles, threats to the world in general, etc. whereas police procedural readers won't pick it up because it's urban fantasy.
Also I need to decide whether I'm going to use a specific short story for my writing group anthology, or keep it for a competition by a local publisher, and what to write instead... Feck it all.
ETA: I've been procrastinating on signing up for
homemade2homemade, thinking that I had until the 8th, and finally got around to it today. So glad I did, as it turns out I'm the last in.
