About two weeks ago, I got sudden inspiration on the way home from work for a new fantasy world which I’ve been struggling with. Not wanting to freak my fellow lift-club passengers out, I did not shout Eureka! I also did not immediately grab my ever-present notebook and rummaged for a pen to jot it down. No, rather I filed it away under ‘URGENT’ and waited to get home (which at that point was about five minutes away and the reason why I could wait). I also may have feigned interest in whatever was on the radio while actually worldbuilding in my mind. I hope I didn’t have a cheesy grin on my face. At the moment the file on my computer about this world is simply called “The Readers”. I love it when a WIP suddenly becomes clear!
My first venture into this world was this piece for NaShoStoMo earlier this year, though it’s already undergone quite a lot of changes. And this world, I’ve found, will be darker than the Airthai stories I’ve been working on and have written over the years.
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