I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that―fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: dreams madness hope fantasy wishes hopelessness whimsy richelle richelle-goodrich
Vision without guts is fantasy.
Visi tanpa nyali adalah fantasi.
What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.
Stacy MantleTags: humor fantasy heroes urban-fantasy
I can see the headline now: Archangel Busts Were Whisperer.
Stacy MantleTags: fantasy werewolves urban-fantasy shapeshifters archangel nephilim
How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?
The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of sexist male protagonists. Which means the yardstick for "authenticity" in such novels almost always ends up being "how much do the women suffer", instead of - as might also be the case - "how sexist are the heroes".
And this bugs me; because if authors can stretch their imaginations far enough to envisage the presence of modern-minded men in the fake Middle Ages, then why can't they stretch them that little bit further to put in modern-minded women, or modern-minded social values? It strikes me as being extremely convenient that the one universally permitted exception to this species of "authenticity" is one that makes the male heroes look noble while still mandating that the women be downtrodden and in need of rescuing.
-Comment at Staffer's Book Review 4/18/2012 to "Michael J. Sullivan on Character Agency
Tags: women writing fantasy authenticity sexism genre sf agency sff femlae-agency male-privledge writing-femlae-characters
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
Tom ShippeyTags: writing fantasy fiction tolkien tom-shippey
I will devour you.
Kay BerrisfordTags: romance fantasy m-m-romance m-m-erotic-romance
From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began "to get under the feet of the main heroes"...
Irina LopatinaTags: fantasy character-development writing-process
Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”
“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”
“You deserved it.
Tags: love history adventure romance fantasy paranormal-romance fiction fairy-tales magic action novel paranormal greek-mythology young-adult mythology coming-of-age camelot mermaid wizards time-travel ya merlin sword poseidon arthurian teen retellings urban-fantasy women-s-fiction ya-fantasy sword-and-sorcery ya-paranormal ya-romance arthurian-collection sea-creatures
No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.
And precious.
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