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Q&A How does one avoid bland, generic fantasy while they write?

Further to Steven Drennons answer, make sure you get people to read it who know and understand the same sorts of influences that you have. This means that a) they are more likely to be your target ...

posted 12y ago by Schroedingers Cat‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Schroedingers Cat‭ · 2019-12-08T02:13:22Z (over 4 years ago)
Further to Steven Drennons answer, make sure you get people to read it who know and understand the same sorts of influences that you have. This means that a) they are more likely to be your target audience and so will give you a critique based on those you are writing for and b) if you are writing badly, or generically, they will probably pick this up and tell you.

To an extent, fantasy works best when it draws on the many other fantasy influences - it fits into the world better. At the same time, you have to draw something new from this as well, but wearly on, you should be setting the scene, defining what part of the fantasy genre you are using, so it will be moderately generic - that is a good thing at that stage.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-03-23T09:22:18Z (about 12 years ago)
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