No “progress” tonight, but I did write 1,200 words on the backstory of La Cause.  I looked up more pictures of aforementioned Inspirational Model Girl, and, while none of the rest of them struck me as Sophie-esque, I do think those few from the magazine were enough to help me move closer to knowing who she is.  I ripped those pages out to refer to later.  I need to buy a tack-board or something for my office so I don’t have a pile random papers cluttering up the desk.

I’ve been dabbling around trying to figure out the way magic works in this world.  It needs to be very structured and organized and almost academic, but there are also hidden, much wilder strains out there.   I think I may have it figured out after tonight. 

I also found a great site with detailed, fin-de-siecle maps of Europe.  I am now trying to come up with alt-names for my violently reworked Europe.  Some things won’t change much (France); some things won’t change much, but will have very different names (Great Britain, for backstory reasons I may never spell out in the story); and I may just make some things up entirely.  All the good alt-London names seem to be taken…  This will be an Edwardian-flavored Europe still very much riddled with principalities and kingdoms randomly sprinkled all around the behemoth nations.  It is also a world teetering on the precipice of violent change–some of it good but much of it Very Bad and To Be Avoided If At All Possible.

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