 Fantasy: August 22, 2018 Issue [#9063] |
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This week: Define Your Fantasy Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Define Your Fantasy
What's your fantasy like?
Everytime my writing comes up in conversation, I get asked what I write. My answer is usually either "Fantasy" or "Fantasy Action-Adventure."
Both ways of saying that have garnered me a variety of reactions. Those reactions ranged from a lecherous "Like your sexual fantasies?" to astounded exclamations of "FANTASY ACTION-ADVENTURE!" as if it was some strange, newly discovered animal from the Australian bush. I usually have to reign in those who were getting onto the slippery "sexual fantasies" route and calm down the outburst of exclamation points for the others.
If you're interested in what my fantasy actually is, it's well ... action-adventure fantasy. That means, I use people who fall under the species definitions of elf, orc, troll, human, dwarf, and other things in action-adventure stories. Makes perfect sense. Right? RIGHT!
Oh. And everybody is an adult and so sometimes they also go home and have a private life. And why would you want to know what they do in private? Wouldn't that fall under, you know, "adult-action-adventure-fantasy?" That gets to be entirely too long to explain.
So, you may or may not have had to explain what your fantasy writing is all about to others. But before you can tell them, you'll have to make up a definition of your fantasy for yourself. Because if you don't know. Then how will they know?
There is the Disney type fantasy that happens where Dumbo takes flight, Peter Pan doesn't grow up, Arthur pulls the sword from the stone, and Alice has an entirely way too psychedelic experience to be rated "E for Everyone."
There is the Tolkien type fantasy where different species live in a place that has Terra-like qualities, but isn't Planet Earth as we know it.
There is a table-top gaming version along the lines of Dungeons and Dragons for the medieval inclined fantasy connoisseur. We also have Shadowrun, the table-top game for the futuristic fantasy specialists. Card games like Magic the Gathering. And the list goes on.
I actually do not like to compare my writing to any of the above named fantasy events, but if I have to, I'm going to have to go with Shadowrun. Enough people know that one. If they don't know that, then I can name Dungeons and Dragons, but in the present. Most people kind of know how to feel about my writing. It's something they can recognize. It turns out that newly discovered critter from the Australian bush was in reality just a particularly cute baby cassowary.
Find your cassowary. And let it fly. |
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It looks like my last Fantasy newsletter "Write Fantasy with a Group" attracted some fairy mischief.
Cupadraig~The Remote Country  wrote: So I was reading the responses to your "The Lollipop" article and I just wanted to add quickly to it. I notice in "The Lollipop" and the response by Elfin Dragon, both of you kept the wording "pixie fairy". I feel this is referencing the same thing, making it unnecessary to use both words. It would like saying "the tiny blue shrimp crustacean". A shrimp IS a crustacean so there's no reason to use both words. In this story, the pixie IS a fairy so there's no reason to say it twice.
I would also suggest, if the writer went with "pixie", the word "tiny" could be removed from the sentence as pixies are depicted in folklore as small creatures.
Lastly, before any purists respond, although similar, pixies and faeries are different creatures in folklore. So it might be good to pick one or the other.
My two cents and in this day and age, that doesn't amount to much. Haha! Love this newsletter!!!
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