concept for fiction serial (take 2)

[recursivelyenumerable]

I wanna write something set in a  religious cult, one whose supernatural beliefs were actually true.  It would work sort of like Buffy or Angel in that it overlays a mythology on the real world, and the characters' fantastic problems parallel and are used as metaphors for more mundane real-life problems, only instead of fighting vampires and demons or whatever, our crew is working to bring about the resurrection of sealed ancient gods, a la stereotypical JRPG villains.  Only instead of being evil, these gods are awesome and will make the world awesome.

i can't decide whether to do this or continue with the vampire fiction project i started a ways back.   Huh

[Eric P]

so basically cthulhu stories in reverse

[recursivelyenumerable]

more or less, but with more wacky romcom hijinx

[Eric P]

so a tom holt book

[Cyanista]

This might do well with a nerd niche, but I'm scared of it.

[Ganhyun]

go for it, if your lucky it becomes big and you are the next equivalent of Laura Hamilton or such.

[recursivelyenumerable]

but as we have already seen from this thread, 100% of women are turned off by the concept  :'(

[Cyanista]

Oh, it's just the romcom aspect that turns me off.  Not all women are as jaded as I am!  in fact, I'd say very few of them are, judging by the popularity of Twilight.

[Tauntaun]

sealed god sounds cool