Hey Everyone! As most folks who've read any of my stories knows I write mostly Sci-Fi or Fantasy based stories. While at the Sci-Fi writers site today I spotted this article and since it's about writing decided that is would be okay to post here. It is of course "Why Fantasy Matters" and in my own humble opinion rocks!
http://aidanmoher.com/blog/2009/02/articles/article-why-fant...
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Grover
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My sweet adorable friend
From the article - Fantasy teaches us to believe in ourselves, to believe in our world and to believe that beyond all else, if you try hard enough you will succeed. We have so many great writers here who do wonders in this genre, and I am glad for it, since it helps me go places I could never ever visit, meet new and wonderful people I would never know, and dream big dreams. Oh, and I do agree with you on one other point, sweetie...your opinion, IMHO Rocks big time!
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Possa Dio riccamente vi benedica, tutto il mio amore, Andrea
Love, Andrea Lena
OMG Mom!!!
Fantasy and Sci-Fi also give us hope for the future. BTW I love your new love D.
Lil' Brat
Over Saturation
I find myself struggling with the twin genres of fantasy and science fiction. Not because I make a judgment upon the worthiness of reading it, but because it seems that I have read too much of it over the last 30 years. It is so much harder to find the wonderment or not scoff at decisions of characters, that I find myself continuing to think that I need to find a new genre. Which is immediately followed by a feeling of bleh. It is almost as if I don't want to read.
Since the stories I write fit within these two genres, it may go a long way to explaining why writing has become such an impossible chore. My sense of credibility may have lost the elasticity required, which allowed me to enjoy reading someone else's work and to create my own.
Keeping it real
For the most part, I try to write stories that could really happen, if not now, then in the next decade. A couple times, I have used a different "voice" and just went with it. I did a little "thing" called "Houston, we have a problem" a while back and really liked writing that way. Saddly, I haven't really done anything with that story, though I have tried.
Now I have started to work on a completely irresponsible totally fanciful SF tale, and it really makes me happy to find how easily the story is flowing out of my fingertips. It is "parody" fantasy SF, so you scientifically correct people just leave it alone. I do not have to keep it real. :)
Gwen