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I’ve been playing with a story idea again, someone has to find a way to stop me, but I was doing it. Anyway, the part of the story that I’ve been thinking about has partly a more naughty part but I have a thought about a more teasing aspect. Basically, there are two businesses side by side. One is very adult oriented where kids can’t go. The other is more family friendly. However it’s owned by the same person and they are creating the appearance of a family friendly atmosphere. Underneath though, it’s more naughty. The initial idea was to focus on the more adult oriented story. But I have looked at starting with the more “family friendly” part. At the moment it’s more of either the adult oriented business is chapter 1 and the “family friendly” business will be chapter 2. Or I could do the reverse. What do you think?

Aw, well, more opportunities to get the wares/inventory mixed up Maybe it starts with a kid finding something they shouldn’t have found? “Mommy! Mommy! What’s this?” followed by shrieks? If I were writing, I’d more likely start on the kid friendly side TBH. Unless it’s horror, and start with an employee getting an anonymous threatening letter “I know where you work, you defiler.” If you’re still undecided -- create two files, write one from the kid-friendly side to start, the other from the adult-orientated side to start. See which one you like better as an opener. (And you’ll have some seed material for the second chapter too.)

It’s more from the perspective of the employees. The initial idea was about the “downstairs book store” concept from the perspective of the employees. The employees are the main characters of the fandom. But as I was working through the “downstairs” story, I thought it might be fun to show the “upstairs” story. Both businesses are going to be staffed by the same characters.

I’ve heard of “bookstores” where the upstairs is a bland selection of books, but you go downstairs for the “adult” material. Guess the question is how is the owner (or owners) want to be perceived? Do you even start at the stores? Or, is it from the perspective of a customer? Which side do you want to emphasize? Kinda a bunch of questions for how you want the story to go.