Wow, no fossil fuels? I didn't remember, from what I heard you read at Cap, it being that different a world -- though I don't think you went into much explanation of the technological and economic basis of the world, I took it for more steampunk -- so no common use of liquid petroleum-based transportation fuels, but having coal based industry, so you have trains, factories in a location without water (or really good wind) power, and steel.
If your Chicago is a big city, it has to be a transport hub, which presumably means linking Great Lakes shipping to the inland rivers and the canal systems (which were just getting going when they were supplanted by railroads).
I could chat about this sort of world building background stuff for a long time, but I gotta run now, and if you're trying to NaNoWriMo you probably don't want to spend a huge amount of time on this now, especially for a world that you already know in your own head...
Actually, stopping to think about the worldbuilding stuff is the main thing that's slowing me down! That's why I started this thread inviting people to, in effect, brainstorm with me
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If they don't have fossil fuels or an electric grid, but they do have urban life, they really need a good light source. So, perhaps they have some sort of sufficiently advanced technology that turns mechanical energy directly into visible light? Wind-up lights don't start fires, so if they've had a material for a long time that glows if you twist/pound/stir/whatever it instead of getting hot, they could well have refined it to the point of not needing fire for light
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They took it to little factory just outside Mississauga where they ground it up to make mattress stuffing.
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If your Chicago is a big city, it has to be a transport hub, which presumably means linking Great Lakes shipping to the inland rivers and the canal systems (which were just getting going when they were supplanted by railroads).
I could chat about this sort of world building background stuff for a long time, but I gotta run now, and if you're trying to NaNoWriMo you probably don't want to spend a huge amount of time on this now, especially for a world that you already know in your own head...
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