Exactly. I have met so many aspiring writers of fantasy and read their work and had to smile and not say what was really on my mind: that it was...
First, that was not an insult, just an idea for an exercise: come up with a fantasy world that avoids all the old, tired cliques. Most here could...
Exactly. So much fantasy is just "Tolkien fanfiction". Why elves and dwarfs in medieval times? Why not Menehune (Hawaiian dwarfs) and Djinn...
Thing is, once upon a time ALL fantasy races were unfamiliar. Before Tolkien, how many people have ever heard of an Elvish? And you can have...
Yes, fantasy, and a lot of it, gets published. But it really isn't "fantasy" anymore, at least not most of it. The root word of "fantasy" is...
It was her agent who got the rejection. She secured an agent only on the second try but that agent, Christopher Little, had a hard time selling...
Two short stories published...granted, it was little, crappy zines, but still, published is published. I'm currently working on a novel. I...
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