If nothing else, read myth, legend, and medieval and renaissance literature – like Tolkien, Lewis, and Gaiman. It will help your fantasy grow deeper and richer.
Originally shared by Melissa Walsh
If nothing else, read myth, legend, and medieval and renaissance literature – like Tolkien, Lewis, and Gaiman.
Sometimes it’s good to know what not to write …
Sometimes it’s good to know what not to write …
Sometimes it’s good to know what not to write …
Sometimes it’s good to know what not to write …
Sometimes it’s good to know what not to write …
That’s a good point. It’s easy to focus on what you enjoy and develop a kind of tunnel vision.
It also helps to read criticisms of genres, like people complaining that “every fantasy revolves too much around a character with dead parents” or any such complaints. By knowing what pitfalls other authors have fallen into, it can be easier to avoid them or to subvert them to great effect.
That’s a good point. It’s easy to focus on what you enjoy and develop a kind of tunnel vision.
It also helps to read criticisms of genres, like people complaining that “every fantasy revolves too much around a character with dead parents” or any such complaints. By knowing what pitfalls other authors have fallen into, it can be easier to avoid them or to subvert them to great effect.
That’s a good point. It’s easy to focus on what you enjoy and develop a kind of tunnel vision.
It also helps to read criticisms of genres, like people complaining that “every fantasy revolves too much around a character with dead parents” or any such complaints. By knowing what pitfalls other authors have fallen into, it can be easier to avoid them or to subvert them to great effect.
That’s a good point. It’s easy to focus on what you enjoy and develop a kind of tunnel vision.
It also helps to read criticisms of genres, like people complaining that “every fantasy revolves too much around a character with dead parents” or any such complaints. By knowing what pitfalls other authors have fallen into, it can be easier to avoid them or to subvert them to great effect.
That’s a good point. It’s easy to focus on what you enjoy and develop a kind of tunnel vision.
It also helps to read criticisms of genres, like people complaining that “every fantasy revolves too much around a character with dead parents” or any such complaints. By knowing what pitfalls other authors have fallen into, it can be easier to avoid them or to subvert them to great effect.
Being conscious of the tropes makes you less likely to perpetuate the more harmful or overdone ones, at the very least.
Being conscious of the tropes makes you less likely to perpetuate the more harmful or overdone ones, at the very least.
Being conscious of the tropes makes you less likely to perpetuate the more harmful or overdone ones, at the very least.
Being conscious of the tropes makes you less likely to perpetuate the more harmful or overdone ones, at the very least.
Being conscious of the tropes makes you less likely to perpetuate the more harmful or overdone ones, at the very least.