Brainstorming for the past couple of days has been like pulling teeth.
A couple days ago, I came up with an idea based on the premise that people could use magic but needed something to focus on. The setting would be around the 1920's and the main character used beads while the villain used dead people. After that, the plot got a little strange and it didn't feel like something that I would want to write. People actively using magic seemed a bit, well, heavy-handed to me.
I came up with another plot today. Some weird stuff is going to happen but I haven't decided yet what kind of weird stuff I want happening. No one is going to have any special mumbo-jumbo powers which is a good thing I suppose since I don't want the characters to have any easy deus ex mechanica ways out of a problem.
