Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

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Oop. Naaramare, I read your post after I'd written mine. Good catch there. And yeah, Pullman just rips into xianity while Rowling just lets it be. All the xians are up in arms only because Potter's popular and Dark Materials isn't. Wonder why not?

As to why pretty girls fall for homely guys but not vice versa, I've heard tell from the experts that - in general - sexual attraction has to do with the visual for men and with characteristics for women. Obviously, being a good looking guy is no fault, nor are good character traits in women. Nevertheless, it's said that guys just need an excuse and a place whereas ladies need a reason and the right circumstances to consummate. [all the women in the audience roll their eyes at the male gender in general] Yep, you're stuck with us. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

In one saga it became forbidden to give "background" characters names, for once i did, they began taking on more of a role than they were intended to play.

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I wanna read your stuff, ST!

Lila Bramble On divergent plots: Nar would say (I think) to write them both and see which one feels more right. My own way would be to FIRST write the current one that's diverging from your original plans, because the divergent one is coming out of the deep creative you, the intuitive genius part of you whereas the former was probably coming more out of the logical, analytical, less imaginative planner side of you.

[lmp takes a bow to all the fair female half-orcs, thinking up some lines of verse as he does so and almost spouts them then thinks better of it because he realllly would rather not get -ahem- involved with any half-species in certain unmentionable ways, as they do not quite fit his visual notions of -you know- beauty (yeah right).] [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]