@TheEdVerse A little insight, if you please!
An oft-repeated bit of advice to writers is "write what you know". But would that even apply for fantasy authors, and if so…how?
This is what happens when I'm awake for no reason 'round the witching hour. 😬
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Heh. I talked about this to an English class just a few days back: that “write what you know” can ring hollow for all genre writers (being as most of us don’t live in a world where wizards hurl wiz-bang spells, or FTL-drive spaceships flit around the federated planets of a… 2)
…galaxy, or murders don't pile up in locked rooms every weekend that any folk gather in a country house, or torrid romances with colossal misunderstandings don't happen thrice every weekend), BUT…it's a truism, and has the failings of all such, yet it contains a small…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 11, 2021
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…heap of the truth: that good writing engages readers in part because it “feels real,” and a writer can achieve that by echoing emotions, sensations (smells, sounds, etc.) gleaned from real life. So if I’m writing about the dead rising from graves to blow me kisses and… 4)
…then drift off into the village to murder the living, I can make the scene seem more real by describing the chill wet mist-laden air that I experienced in a real-life moonlit visit to a graveyard that happened to lack ghosts rising all around me.
We root the fantastic in…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 11, 2021
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…little details (touches or flourishes, if you will) that make it seem more real, to make it more convincing and therefore more satisfying to read. :}
Now, I have this bridge sitting here that I'd LOVE to sell you…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 11, 2021