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Fantasy: July 22, 2009 Issue [#3172]

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What foods do your characters eat?
How long does it take your characters to prepare their food on the trail?


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Letter from the editor

Have you ever considered what foods your characters eat? Food is a part of our daily lives and it is a part of the lives of fantasy characters. Every creature has to eat something. It does not matter whether the character in your novel or short story is immortal or mortal the character has to eat. Dragons eat. Unicorns eat. Elves eat. Giants eat. Vampires eat.

For some of these characters food choice is obvious and easily acquired. For other characters, food is more difficult to find and must be prepared properly. Improperly prepared food in the real world gives us problems. In a fantasy novel, the food the characters eat and the way it is prepared gives the novel depth and realism.

The majority of readers know how long it takes to roast a leg of lamb, barbecue a chicken, or boil water. If the character in your novel is cooking his or her food along the trail, then it is going to take some time to cook the food properly.

Readers might read fantasy to get away from the real world, but they do not leave the real world behind in their minds. Readers still expect it to take more then a few seconds to cook chicken or chicken like creatures. The writer can use the time it takes the food to cook to describe surroundings or insert plot elements. Anything that will show the passage of time between the moments the character places the food on the fire and takes it off to eat.



Editor's Picks

Stories and Poems


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 Nothing happened then dinner came along Open in new Window. (13+)
An interactive starting chapter of "Being a Dragon isn't easy"
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 Witch's Brew Open in new Window. (ASR)
A traditional witchlore tale and then some.
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 Humans and Other Snack Foods Open in new Window. (18+)
What if Aliens found us and really, really liked us?
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A carnivorous monster with insatiable hunger is locked in a room with a defenseless human.
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Cory just found out that his room is playing host to an alien who eats knowledge.
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Ask & Answer

sarahreed writes: Folklore and myths are often confused for each other because they often have the same goal - to educate people about something that is not "real" and can't be proven. They contain morals, regardless of what they are about.

AliceNgoreland Author Icon writes: Thank you kindly for including my contest, "Alice's Curiosity Shop". I look forward to reading the stories that arrive.

Do you use food or food preparation in your fantasy novels? If so, do you make sure that the time it takes to prepare the food is consistent with the type of food the character is going to eat?
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