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When I started my WIP several years ago I had only limited experience with what was out there in regards to Urban Fantasies. Mainly, Laurel K. Hamilton.
So when I started writing it, I started calling the place where spirits, demons, imps, and other metacreatures lived as the Otherworld.
Now I've discovered several so many other authors doing Urban Fantasy, like Jim Butcher, Tanya Huff, Kim Harrison, et al and I've found some of them use that reference for the spiritual magic place. (Granted Butcher calls it the Never Never, but you get the idea.)
So now I wonder if I want to be original and call it something else, like the multiverse, alternate dimensions, spirit world, astral plane (boring), or The Weird, or something else. Keep in mind this novel is a bit tongue-in-cheek, so I was thinking The Weird. It's also sort of a homage to pulp writers who used the word weird to mean supernatural scary stuff before we modern people just transformed it into, "Man, you're weird."
Although Otherworld worked because my character goes on the Internet and visits the Otherworld Wide Web. Hmm, The Weird Wide Web has an interesting ring to it, too.
Gah!
So when I started writing it, I started calling the place where spirits, demons, imps, and other metacreatures lived as the Otherworld.
Now I've discovered several so many other authors doing Urban Fantasy, like Jim Butcher, Tanya Huff, Kim Harrison, et al and I've found some of them use that reference for the spiritual magic place. (Granted Butcher calls it the Never Never, but you get the idea.)
So now I wonder if I want to be original and call it something else, like the multiverse, alternate dimensions, spirit world, astral plane (boring), or The Weird, or something else. Keep in mind this novel is a bit tongue-in-cheek, so I was thinking The Weird. It's also sort of a homage to pulp writers who used the word weird to mean supernatural scary stuff before we modern people just transformed it into, "Man, you're weird."
Although Otherworld worked because my character goes on the Internet and visits the Otherworld Wide Web. Hmm, The Weird Wide Web has an interesting ring to it, too.
Gah!
