Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Naaramare]

Have you found, since you started writing that you percieve things differently

I have a quote in one of my bios for a website. It goes "In the beginning, there was the Story. And the Story was with [Naaramare] and the Story was [Naaramare]." (of course, my real name is used).

There was a time when I wasn't a writer, but I've never not been a storyteller. I've never not looked at a tree and wondered if maybe a colony of tree-fae could be living inside, or whether that tree mightn't have been where a traveller made his last stand. The only thing that changed as I got older/more into writing was that instead of wondering what was (because as a child, I firmly believed in the fae in a way that made Santa Claus look pathetic and flimsy), I began to wonder what could-have-been, what-if. ^^

So I can't say I see things differently. I just put what I see to different use.