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It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

fantasy-fiction, writing

it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s no medieval floridness. There’s no fairy tale condescension to the child reader. It’s very straight, and very clean—there’s no Vaseline on the lens. You see everything clearly, not with sparkles or a flowery sense of wonderment, but with very specific physical details.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

It’s easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

fantasy-fiction, writing

it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s no medieval floridness. There’s no fairy tale condescension to the child reader. It’s very straight, and very clean—there’s no Vaseline on the lens. You see everything clearly, not with sparkles or a flowery sense of wonderment, but with very specific physical details.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

fantasy-fiction, writing

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

fantasy-fiction, writing