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 Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:06 am
I don't post enough in this guild. I should fix that right now...
I'm currently making an attempt at serious fantasy. I've always had a theory that you can use generic elements in a fantasy. However, to make it remotely original, you use the least amount. It's disproving itself thus far.
While I am somewhat confident in the world-building behind it, my friend made a comment while reading an excerpt and my plans. Being a huge cliche-fantasy dork, she asks me, "Why don't you have any elves or orcs?"
To be honest, I think that fantasy has generally failed to progress since Tolkein. Yes, there are some novels and series that will prove me wrong. But when most people I know think of fantasy, they describe Tolkein world.
So I have some magic, a few gods, and various "*worlds."
*In this case, "worlds" refers to an alternate state of existence.
I know I could just Wikipedia and Google up the elements of a fantasy novel, but I would like to know what you--the writer most likely not published yet--thinks are the tenets of fantasy.
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:23 pm
Personally, I think its the worldbuilding. Like, for example, in my novel, I've gone through and wrote a short (two or three paragraph, but sometimes longer) biography of all the emperors in one of my fantasy countries and how they relate to everyone else. This is something that helps to make it more believable, I think.
That, and magic. To me, the apperance of magic is the line between a fantasy story, and a story of any other genre.
:3 I might be wrong, but thats what I think.
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