Fantasy: November 13, 2019 Issue [#9856]
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 This week: Real World Themes
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

Dear writers and readers of fantasy, I am NaNoNette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for today's issue.


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Letter from the editor

Real World Themes


Ever been upset with the real world?


Fantasy writing can be a pretty neat escape from the real world. You can take just about any subject that annoys you in the real world and attack it in a fantasy setting.

If you feel that politics or the culture in your country isn't great, you can use that to fuel your fantasy world. How else do you think all those dystopian novels and short stories came to be? If everyone was happy as a clam, there wouldn't be any need for books like The Hunger Games or The Giver.

If you are worried about technology and its effects on the environment, you can use that to write a fantasy world that reflects your thoughts on the subject. While it might feel more like Sci-Fi, books and movies like I Robot are a reaction to the fear that technology will at some point become self-aware and take over the world.

Any type of violence, racism, or other dividing issue in society lends itself to start your fantasy story. Even though Game of Thrones happens in a world that is only similar to ours, aren't those similarities just making your skin crawl? All we need is dragons and our world wouldn't be that far removed from Westeros.

The best part about writing fantasy?

Since it's your world, you get to decide how it all ends. You have total world domination. You get to crown the king. And the queen. And fly off with the other queen. If you want to.


Editor's Picks

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Starlight Dragons Open in new Window. (E)
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#2155272 by The Dark Faery Author IconMail Icon

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Oh no! A Dragon! Open in new Window. (13+)
A child playing with his mother.
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Dragon Poem Open in new Window. (E)
Quatrains about a dragon. 1st place in Paper Doll Gang Form Poetry Contest September 2019.
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The Hatchling Open in new Window. (E)
Dragon lore; Form: Rhyme
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Children’s, Fantasy, Picgture Inspired, Form: Quatrains
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Dreaming is one thing, but not coming back to the Real World is another.
#1216815 by Cubby Author IconMail Icon

 
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Ask & Answer

I received the following replies to my last Fantasy newsletter "High Fantasy" Open in new Window.

Quick-Quill Author Icon wrote: Note: I love it when the newsletter author responds to our comments.

I agree. It feels pointless to reply to a newsletter and never get any reply whether here on in an email. I'm sure that I've overlooked a couple of comments here or there over the years, but I try to reply to all comments when I send the same genre newsletter.

BIG BAD WOLF is Howling Author Icon wrote: There's all kinds of Fantasies - No! Not those ones, and put that whip away! - such as Urban Fantasy, which is set in a setting that resembles anything from the late 19th century, on up to the present. Then there's Science Fantasy, which has both laser guns and magic wands.

Yup. Although the laser guns come from a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

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