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I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.
—Hannah John-Kamen
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.
—Lynda Barry
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
—Marilyn Monroe |
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With Valentine's Day coming up fast, I thought I'd take this opportunity to make an important genre-related distinction:
Sometimes, fantasy isn't Fantasy.
As with any literary genre, Fantasy can be tricky to define, with fuzzy boundaries. Any definition anyone can come up with, someone else can come up with a counterexample or an argument against it. But take it from someone who has to sigt through the Fantasy genre story listings here every four weeks:
That thing you wrote about what you'd do with your French teacher given half the chance? Yeah, that's not Fantasy; that's Erotica. Unless there's magic, elves, unicorns, or magical elven unicorns (or similar imaginary beings) involved, it's an entirely different thing from Fantasy writing. Come to think of it, I may have just given myself a story idea. Thanks, Me!
Mind you, there's nothing wrong with writing such things. It's absolutely a legitimate and popular genre of literature, even if few will admit to reading it. (Just be sure to use an appropriate Content Rating for it here on WDC.)
It's simply not what this newsletter's about.
It is, of course, also perfectly acceptable to write Fantasy erotica. The cool thing about Fantasy (and science fiction, for that matter) is that it's not an "alone" genre. That is, almost all Fantasy is merged with some other theme. The classic Tolkien novels, for example, could also be classed in Action/Adventure. You can also have Mystery, Romance, Drama, Military, Horror, Western, or (my favorite) Comedy. Or, really, just about anything.
But, in general, to be Fantasy, you usually need to have supernatural and/or magical elements. Your encounter with your French teacher may have seemed supernatural and/or magical (or would have been had it ever happened), but trust me, that's just neurons firing.
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Fantasy: February 05, 2025 Issue [#12968]
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