In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't have to be accurate.
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Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you.
The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
I have a lot of fantasy.
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
You have to hold onto your fantasy.
I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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