Writing Fantasy

"Genre has great trappings, no doubt about it. We’ve got dragons and space ships and murders and kissing, and the skilled creation of great trappings is an essential part of writing genre, and an awesome part, but I don’t think it’s the heart of it. The test of a genre book is in the purity and potency with which these elemental harp strings are played. Underneath your dragons and space ships and murders and kissing, you’d better be connecting to these primal human cravings." 

              — Laini Taylor

Patricia McKillip, a major influence

“The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it, this enchanted, fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and, in others, is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be? Perhaps it's just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears, the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can; we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales.”
― Patricia A. McKillip

I Know.

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion...”

― Victoria Finlay

(If you had only one try, one story, and that was it, what would it be?)

Dream on.....

“Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,

It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.”

― Nikki Rowe

Besides Hoping for Peace and Good Health

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible"

— Richard Feynman

#2025Resolution

Happy New Year to All!

2025 is here

“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”

              — Stephen Fry

P.S. (Purity is overrated, the rest is great)