Comments on: Beautiful things…

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:09:00 +0000

Yes, I didn’t mean the worlds we’re describing in the stories, but rather the creative environment (or mindset) within which we sit down and write whatever we’re writing.

Asinine, ignorant, and dominated by assumption and fear – yup, that sums up the so-called real world all too accurately, alas. 😮

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:37:00 +0000

We'll have to make a pact, Cat. I read your edited short story collections, and you read my fantasies...lol.

Gods, Ru, I think my worlds are sometimes more like hell than home. Although I guess the idea that I can make the hero/ine triumph over odds - no matter how extreme they are - if I want it that way, is in fact comforting.

Especially when in our own real world we are so often at the mercy of an absurd bureaucracy, asinine rules and guilt by assumption, not proof. After all, if someone emails another and his syntax seems unusual, then it must be written in code, right? And if the guy's a Muslim, therefore the code must be advocating violence, right?
Even if you don't actually understand it...

At least in fiction, we can make it turn out right, i.e.,justly, if we want it that way.

By: hrugaar

hrugaar — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:34:00 +0000

I wonder, when we sit down to write fantasy stories and immerse ourselves in a world of our own, role-playing all the characters in the story we’re telling, are we creating for ourselves a kind of personal equivalent of that childhood sense of feeling at home?

By: Cat Sparks

Cat Sparks — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:01:00 +0000

Beautiful blog post, Glenda. I’m going to have to get round to reading one of your books one of these days, aren’t I? 🙂