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Urban fantasy ideas
Sep. 27th, 2011 02:16 pmToday am listening to Covenant and VNV Nation on YouTube. I really need to buy some decent versions, the sound quality is bad even by my standards. BUT. This is the soundtrack of my urban fantasy 'verses. I don't know why. I listen to this and suddenly Norwich is full of ghosts and wolves and vampires. Mostly ghosts. Having grand martial arts fights on church rooftops. I don't know which church would have room for that, but there's a ton of churches in Norwich, I'm sure we could find one. Also one to be the goth club for the night. Maybe the arts place?
The thing with urban fantasy is it works best when it starts with the specific urban. It's applying poetry logic to a landscape, making symbols out of street signs. Sure, you can have vampires anywhere, but if it's just a blurry anywhere then it remains nowhere. If it's a specific corner of a specific street you can start making it work.
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The thing with urban fantasy is it works best when it starts with the specific urban. It's applying poetry logic to a landscape, making symbols out of street signs. Sure, you can have vampires anywhere, but if it's just a blurry anywhere then it remains nowhere. If it's a specific corner of a specific street you can start making it work.
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