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I promise, flist, I will stop spamming you with questions after this. No curiosity this time, though, it's kind of need to know if anyone can answer.
I have this idea for an original story that I really like and really want to write. It's urban fantasy, an AU of our world but with the fantasy elements totally made up. New religion, new myths, new creatures (with smatterings of the more familiar, such as dragons and imps). The world itself, however, is just like our world - cars, cell phones, TVs and all that (towns and cities will also be made up. Government I'm still deciding on since it doesn't really play a major role).
What I need to know if this sounds like a plausible concept. Are there stories out there that you've read or heard of that did something similar - kept the alternate world pretty much like our world, or relatively the same, but tweeked it in other aspects (such as the mythology, religion, etc but without resorting to, say steampunk)? I know there are stories that have pretty much resculpted our world in order to create alternate universes (His Dark Materials, for example), but in the case of those stories everything was tweeked - government, technology, clothing styles, etc. With my idea, as I said, the only thing I plan on altering are the mythical and religious aspects.
But I'm hesitant because... I have no idea why. I guess my biggest concern would be whether it might throw people off, if they would assume I was basing the myths and religion on something that existed, then get all huffy because "that's not what that myth/religion is actually like!"
Or maybe I'm being too paranoid? I don't know, but I figure that maybe a little confirmation might help.
I have this idea for an original story that I really like and really want to write. It's urban fantasy, an AU of our world but with the fantasy elements totally made up. New religion, new myths, new creatures (with smatterings of the more familiar, such as dragons and imps). The world itself, however, is just like our world - cars, cell phones, TVs and all that (towns and cities will also be made up. Government I'm still deciding on since it doesn't really play a major role).
What I need to know if this sounds like a plausible concept. Are there stories out there that you've read or heard of that did something similar - kept the alternate world pretty much like our world, or relatively the same, but tweeked it in other aspects (such as the mythology, religion, etc but without resorting to, say steampunk)? I know there are stories that have pretty much resculpted our world in order to create alternate universes (His Dark Materials, for example), but in the case of those stories everything was tweeked - government, technology, clothing styles, etc. With my idea, as I said, the only thing I plan on altering are the mythical and religious aspects.
But I'm hesitant because... I have no idea why. I guess my biggest concern would be whether it might throw people off, if they would assume I was basing the myths and religion on something that existed, then get all huffy because "that's not what that myth/religion is actually like!"
Or maybe I'm being too paranoid? I don't know, but I figure that maybe a little confirmation might help.
