High School Question of the, uh, month
I was SUPPOSED to be doing these every month but July just got away from me!
Today's question comes from Mac:
How does the process of transplanting yourself* change when writing science fiction and fantasy?
Surprisingly little for me and, I think, most writers. I love rambling around in the woods, so I tend to set fantasy worlds in forest areas similar to what I'm used to. So I'm more likely to write a fantasy where most of the action takes place in a forest rather than in a desert or arctic area. There's a scene in the book where Tatelyn is flying on Simle's back, and I used an event from my own life there. I was on a roller coaster once and my vision blacked out at one point. I went on it again (because I'm masochistic like that!) and it blacked out at the same spot, probably from the G-force at that point. I think if an author isn't transplanting themselves even just a little in their work, no matter what the genre, the work won't seem real.
*Mac encountered the term transplanting yourself in Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. It is the process of being in one place and writing about another, but incorporating pieces of the place of your real existence into that of your fictional world. Thus, if it is raining in Pittsburgh, Mac’s story about a distant planet might include a rain storm.
Today's question comes from Mac:
How does the process of transplanting yourself* change when writing science fiction and fantasy?
Surprisingly little for me and, I think, most writers. I love rambling around in the woods, so I tend to set fantasy worlds in forest areas similar to what I'm used to. So I'm more likely to write a fantasy where most of the action takes place in a forest rather than in a desert or arctic area. There's a scene in the book where Tatelyn is flying on Simle's back, and I used an event from my own life there. I was on a roller coaster once and my vision blacked out at one point. I went on it again (because I'm masochistic like that!) and it blacked out at the same spot, probably from the G-force at that point. I think if an author isn't transplanting themselves even just a little in their work, no matter what the genre, the work won't seem real.
*Mac encountered the term transplanting yourself in Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. It is the process of being in one place and writing about another, but incorporating pieces of the place of your real existence into that of your fictional world. Thus, if it is raining in Pittsburgh, Mac’s story about a distant planet might include a rain storm.