Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Saxony Tarn]

welcome back, LMP -- gosh, that's deep (although not quite as deep as some of your other threads, where i need those fabled black CIA helicopters to airlift me out!)

Themes -- hmm... let's see...

1) changing of the guard (one generation takes over the reins from the other, often w/ growing pains)
2) the paranormal intrudes on the real, and the characters savvy to it have to confront & correct the situation (w/o endangering those unaware)
3) hmm... what was #3... i'll probably remember later when the caffeine kicks in. Oh yeah, that was it -- throwing two seemingly incompatible characters together & watching what alchemy results (or doesn't) -- often resulting in at least one of them (if not both) undergoing some radical change)

Guess if you looked hard enough you could find all of these in the current project -- in addition to the Purgatory angle, which just arose in the writing and made me grin so much i decided to see how far i could run with it. Decidedly UNlike LMP's other thread where he asks about Tolkein consciously editing in more of his religious outlook (despite scant presence in the main book of organized religion as we'd know it here for the characters, at least as far as i can find) and which, i might add, is a thread so deeply philosophical that you'll need an airlift to get out. Deep spiritual thinkers, explore if you dare...

Anyone else?

|_|) <-- raise a glass!

s.t.

(Hmm... ya know, i'd like to think Tolkein would have gotten a chuckle out of my sending one of his characters to Purgatory... B) i know i've been getting enough chuckles from this hypothetical character development odyssey. Now was that, redefine yourself, or re-define yourself? mmHmmm...)