Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Saxony Tarn]

Ah, LOVE -- that great fantasy...

(as all my characters nod vigorously & shout, yeah right, we've heard that one before!)

i find it's the best (and the most fun to write) if the characters have to figure out over the course of the story that they're meant for each other -- the hard way, like two north ends of a magnet having to figure out how to stick together. A lot more like Life with its misunderstandings, unrealistic expectations, less than optimal timing, the works. Something we in the real world can still relate to!

Something that runs like, "but of course (she) is hardly the woman that you would desire, Brother -- nor can any woman on (milieu omitted) ever be the woman that you desire, for you have never known what it is that you do desire! So, since you have no clear image of the woman that you want, Providence gives you instead the woman that you need -- and it should hardly surprise me that, despite all her actions in your best interest, you perceived her at first as your worst nightmare!"

Whoa, Faramir, hold that thought while i write it down, and i'll shut my mouth & go finish that fanfic...

|_|) <-- skoal!

s.t.