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Hi, everyone! I'm Gaby and I'm your guest editor for this week's issue of the Fantasy Newsletter.
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
~ Kim Elizabeth
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
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I must say that I love and agree with the following quote:
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
~ Terry Pratchett
I read almost everything! Romance would be the number one genre I enjoy, but even I get bored with that. When it comes to writing, I'll dab my pen into any genre I see if at the moment. I don't like my writing to be labeled in a single genre. If I ever wrote something worth publishing, then I guess I'd have no choice and I'd choose fantasy.
Everything you write comes from your own imagination - unless it's non-fiction. In a way, it is all a fantasy. And sometimes, there's too much of a good thing.  Few manage to pull it off properly. George R.R. Martin managed with A Song of Ice and Fire series. I've watched the show and was fascinated with it! I have all the books but haven't managed to read them yet. My fascination doesn't just lie with the fact that he created an entire new world, but that he created so many characters who are all considered main characters. There are families upon families to keep track of. My curiosity is peaked as to how he managed to keep them all straight. Most people would give up.
The thing is, most people do give up. It is beyond their comprehension and they don't go through with it. That doesn't mean that the story is lost or that you have to get rid of those characters. No! Keep them. Hold on to them. They might matter somewhere else. As I saw the latest Game of Thrones episode of this season (no spoilers, I promise) I wondered about this man's imagination and whether or not it had any boundaries at all.
What he does seem to have is a strong belief in himself - not his writing per se. But did he doubt himself along the road of writing this monster? Did he have those moments of doubt when it came to his writing? I'm sure he did, but look at what he created. Why can't you or I for that matter? We are our own worst enemies. We need to silence that negative voice in our heads.
The story you wrote yesterday may not look so good today, but that doesn't mean you should simply erase it! Divide it, take from it, discard only what you must. And use your imagination to create worlds no one has ever dreamed of!
'til next time!
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