Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Saxony Tarn]

Why thank you Laie -- i thought so! (more, more, i'm still not satisfied... -- T. Lehrer)

Well, on the surface, that was meant to be a muster call for any male characters who didn't toe the manly-man party line to shout out and be proud. While i have in the course of writing at least one tale had a character come out of the closet to me, that precise degree wasn't quite where i was aiming... (okay. yet!! B) )

But hey, we're trying to go for seven pages here, so any humble thing i can do to stimulate discussion! Hmm... let's see... what else haven't we covered yet? Anybody else got a hot topic?

:: dead silence as Wights sip their drinks ::

Okay, here's one that my Elvish consultant and brave, valiant alpha proof reader and i have been wrangling with, since she is a self-confessed skeptic of powerful magic effects -- how do you handle Magic? Phenomenal Extrasensory mental Powers? Divine Intervention? Or some of the stuff in the last book of LOTR that struck me as a wee bit too Deus Ex Machina -- like Aragorn healing people by blowing Kingsfoil tea steam in their faces? i don't know... i still need a little more nuts-and-bolts to be underpinning that. ("Because he's the King" is not sufficient reason)

Bait's cast -- who'll bite?

s.t.

|_|) <-- drink up!