A/U vs. All New - Update

Well, what do you know! I decide to leave my nano novel aside, sick of fighting myself about the A/U vs new world debate. Then I go out tonight and make a decision! So I think I'm going to go with a new world.

Basically, every year we have a Festival of Lights here in Lyons. Me and my wife went out to watch the lights and I realised what it was about an all new world that attracted me to the idea in the first place and what put me off using an A/U. I don't think Elizabethan England is impressive enough for what I want to write.

For example, one of the things I love in Scott Lynch's Gentleman Bastards Sequence are the cities. And in those cities, the buildings are large, impressive and monumentous. You don't get that in Elizabethan London. You don't really find it in modern London, though slightly more. What I can get from a whole new world is a city that has that monumentous feel to it. And with the idea of a city in three parts (a floating city above, a pyramidal city between and a downtrodden city below) I can have both. The monumentous buildings above and between, the feel of Elizabethan London below.

So there you have it. Of course, I'll probably have changed my mind by tomorrow... :) But hey, that's part of the fun.