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Now no more, alas…<\/p><\/div>\n
The subject, as per the title, centered on why I write Fantasy (as opposed to any other class of fiction) in general and epic fantasy in particular. It went something like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason I want to celebrate epic fantasy is fairly straightforward: I love the genre\u2026I love big, sweeping, adventurous stories where there\u2019s a lot at stake and what\u2019s at stake matters. I love stories of heroism, and friendships that endure in the face of darkness and despair \u2014 but sometimes fail, too. I love sword fights, and glorious charges, and forlorn hopes, and \u201cbands of brothers\u201d holding together through the \u201cthick and thin.\u201d I love magic, too, and if comes with a thread of darkness, danger, and the surreal, then all the better. World building is also really important to me, and not just landscapes but cultures as well: I want the world and the societies to be real for me when I\u2019m reading and that\u2019s what I strive for in my own writing. And I like a bit of romance \u2014 not big R romance which has it\u2019s own genre, but what I call \u201clittle r\u201d romance, which is integral to all our lives and definitely has its place in big book epic. [My books]\u2026may be about magic and danger, roof top pursuits and forced marches by night, tourneys and battles, bands of brothers \u2014 and sisters \u2014 but [they\u2019re] also about love\u2026So there you have it: epic and adventure and magic, battles and flights, world building and emotional power, friendship and love. If you enjoy any or all of these things in your reading, then you may just find something in\u2026[my storytelling]\u2026that you will like.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And since many of you who visit here have<\/em> liked, and have already waited far too long for the series’ conclusion, that’s all from me for today. Otherwise I’ll never get my outpass from the current (metaphorical) writing abode, as pictured below. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n “Ten leagues beyond the wide world’s end”; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yep, time for a “from the backlist” post — and this quote from a 2012 post on (then) genre site SF Signal still feels evergreen. The subject, as per the title, centered on why I write Fantasy (as opposed to any other class of fiction) in general and epic fantasy in particular. It went something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epicfantasy","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42883,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42881\/revisions\/42883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/etching_hill-tower-217x300.jpg\")
art by Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n