6.13.2008
Happy Friday the 13th!
I don't know if any of you are superstitious or not, but it is still a cool day...
Anway, (this probably needs a clutch) I've been thinking about a new story. I know that I need to really work on Terrakania, but I feel stuck. And I've been reading the Anita Blake books, and I read the first Harry Dresden book, and I have always loved to concept of modern fantasy, I have even started them multiple times, some time ago, before I really learned "how" to write, it just works in my...heart/core/imagination/whatever the hell you want to call it, and so I've been rolling things around in my head. It isn't very concrete, and I haven't put anything down except a list of types of magic users, and I think that the main characters are fraternal twins, boy and girl. And I really think that I want to write this.
I mean, I really want to write the stories that are waiting in Terrakania, too, and they deserve to be told, but I think that as much of who I am has gone into Terrakania the creation of that world, modern fantasy is much more central to who I am. I used to get lost in the idea, and would find myself thinking that if I just believed a little bit more I would actually do something. As in magic. I still find myself, not believing that anymore, but making the motions, pretending, wanting to believe. It is at the core of my reality crisis, and I really, really want to write it. A true modern fantasy. Not sci fi, no mutants, no scientific experiments that lead to super powers, no aliens. I want magic, and faeries, and vampires, and gods and goddesses, and at the same time, we can have guns, and the police, and cars, and airplanes, and real life. Because now that I think about it, that is what modern fantasy should do. It should take real life, and real life problems and give them to the supernatural, making everything extraordinary.
I don't know if any of you are superstitious or not, but it is still a cool day...
Anway, (this probably needs a clutch) I've been thinking about a new story. I know that I need to really work on Terrakania, but I feel stuck. And I've been reading the Anita Blake books, and I read the first Harry Dresden book, and I have always loved to concept of modern fantasy, I have even started them multiple times, some time ago, before I really learned "how" to write, it just works in my...heart/core/imagination/whatever the hell you want to call it, and so I've been rolling things around in my head. It isn't very concrete, and I haven't put anything down except a list of types of magic users, and I think that the main characters are fraternal twins, boy and girl. And I really think that I want to write this.
I mean, I really want to write the stories that are waiting in Terrakania, too, and they deserve to be told, but I think that as much of who I am has gone into Terrakania the creation of that world, modern fantasy is much more central to who I am. I used to get lost in the idea, and would find myself thinking that if I just believed a little bit more I would actually do something. As in magic. I still find myself, not believing that anymore, but making the motions, pretending, wanting to believe. It is at the core of my reality crisis, and I really, really want to write it. A true modern fantasy. Not sci fi, no mutants, no scientific experiments that lead to super powers, no aliens. I want magic, and faeries, and vampires, and gods and goddesses, and at the same time, we can have guns, and the police, and cars, and airplanes, and real life. Because now that I think about it, that is what modern fantasy should do. It should take real life, and real life problems and give them to the supernatural, making everything extraordinary.