I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving a story into the fantastic we can actually bring it closer to the reader, not move it further away. It is more than an escape. When we read of the only daughter of a fisherman (or the third son of a woodcutter) in a fairy tale, we are all that character. That's the underlying pulse beat of such tales. Using the fantastic as a prism for the past, if done properly, removes the tale from distancing specificity. It can't just be read as unique to a time and place; it is universalized in interesting, powerful ways. When I wrote Tigana, about the way tyranny tries to erase identity in conquered peoples, the fantasy setting seems to have done exactly that: I'm asked in places ranging from Korea to Poland to Croatia to Quebec, "Were you writing about us?"
I was. All of them. That is the point. The fantastic is a tool in the writer's arsenal, as potentially powerful as any there is, and any tool we have works to the benefit of the reader.
Stichwörter: experience writing fantasy folktale
Jack Miller aimed his shotgun at the monster’s grey-skinned head and pulled the trigger. Green sludge and bits of bone and flesh splattered through the air to land on the street, the gory aftermath releasing a noxious, sulfurous odor.
Danielle MonschStichwörter: fantasy paranormal-romance fantasy-romance
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Criss JamiStichwörter: imagination life art perception reading thinking experience reality poetry writing perspective solitude dreams fantasy universe fun artist thoughts artistic songwriting vicarious contemplating
The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real events’. P3
Beatrix CampbellStichwörter: fantasy health crazy rape facts freud events real hysteria child-abuse sexual-abuse projection patient asylum national-health-service pedophile discredited
What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?"
"Shit," the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.
"That wouldn't impress anyone at the patent office.
Stichwörter: humor humour fantasy funny invention peacemaker steampunk lindsay-buroker
Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity.
Madeleine L'EngleStichwörter: fantasy inspriational
No,” I said. “I can’t remember doing this.”
“Oh,” Rena made and gestured dramatically. “You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?
Stichwörter: family fantasy fiction mystery paranormal young-adult frindship
Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.
Neil GaimanStichwörter: fantasy memory myth personal
What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)
Mary Doria RussellStichwörter: fantasy science-fiction
Support Imagination. Read a book.
Robbi Sommers BryantStichwörter: fantasy suspense psychological-suspense wolves urban-fantasy shapeshifting shape-shifters
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