Comments on: Skin deep – or one reason why I write fantasy https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:36:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24088 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:16:00 +0000 #comment-24088 Thank you, Hrugaar.

Dunno whether the kids still get asked – but my daughter did say she thinks some people think she’s the maid when she takes her blond son out…sigh.

Emma, I’m surprised people still read Shute! He is a writer who has dated terribly.

]]> By: Helen V. https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24087 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:22:00 +0000 #comment-24087 couldn’t agree more, Glenda. I’ve never been able to undertand this attitude to ‘genre’. As if literature isn’t genre, too.

]]> By: Satima Flavell https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24086 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:56:00 +0000 #comment-24086 Heh he – “constrained by reality”! Lovely.

There is no better way to make a point than through allegory. That, to me, is good fantasy’s greatest strength.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24085 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:38:00 +0000 #comment-24085 I’m reading a Nevil Shute book at the moment, In the wet, and it has a science fictiony section which zips forward thirty years into the future (which is a very strange future where the UK is depopulated and run down because of socialists and Australia is doing great thanks to the right wing Brits emigrating here and the Queen is very important to us all). Anyway, in the author note he says “…Fiction is the most suitable medium in which to make this forecast. Fiction deals with people and their difficulties and, more than that, nobody takes a novelist too seriously. The puppets born of his imagination walk their little stage for our amusement, and if we find that their creator is impertinent his errors of taste do not sway the world”.

Despite his modesty here, it’s clear he thought his message was important. When I read his note this morning I thought of this blog entry and how your (more palatable!) message can fly in under the radar as it’s “only” fantasy.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24084 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:25:00 +0000 #comment-24084 Oh, he’s so pretty!!!!

And hey, so’s Ramly. *g*

Lovely photo of you two. Says it all, really. And your points are spot on.

]]> By: Lone Grey Squirrel https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24083 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:01:00 +0000 #comment-24083 Well written. Message is clear.

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2007/01/skin-deep-or-one-reason-why-i-write/#comment-24082 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:51:00 +0000 #comment-24082 Actually you are writing books of literary merit – but the Fantasy genre itself is treated as a kind of suspect halfbreed in (self-styled) ‘literary’ circles.

Often the cross-breed dogs are more intelligent than the thoroughbreds (we’re back to genetics again, heh). Not that I’m calling you or your books dogs, Glenda, honestly!

Out of interest, do your children still get asked if you’re their natural mother? Or has any enlightment filtered through to the next generation?

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