Wednesday, April 2, 2008

City Planning

A lot of work goes into the creation of a city. Especially when it's a fictional city, and that creation must include not just the geography and topography and demography, the street names and neighborhood names and locations of places like City Hall and the Asylum and the Sanctuary, but a complete past, complete with inaccuracies, legends, misunderstands, and untruths, and even a future.

Yes, I'm planning it all. Beginning to end.

I'm going through all the stories, told and untold (i.e., published and awaiting), including the upcoming novel (you might find information on the Delirium website, if you look hard enough; I'm just saying), novellas like Beneath Midnight and the as-yet-unwritten ones.

And I need a map.

A good, solid, layered map.

I have a lot of work ahead of me, don't I?

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