The Military Fantasy Thing (and a little general update)

[blairmacg]

Originally posted March 10, 2015 at Blair MacGregor Books.

Somewhere along the way, I ended up writing military fantasy.

I didn’t intend to, really.  Maybe way back, when I was first putting stories together, I had a notion.  But really, I can’t recall ever thinking to call them “military fantasy.”  But once others applied that label, and when I

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[blairmacg]

Very much so! Fiction writing is sometimes like an ongoing argument I have with myself--figuring out where I personally draw lines within the foggy gray, then trying to find them again when the fog insists on moving.

[haikujaguar]

I had the same feeling while writing Spots. It is rough to get past it.

[blairmacg]

Ah, I can totally see that!

And I know I'm so lucky to have had some folks willing to discuss their combat experience with me--not only the fighting, but the aftermath, the new-to-them mixed-gender groupings, and the stress that built when all seemed quiet.

But I'll never know, really deep down, if what I feel empathetically and what I relate in the story, comes close. And that does bother me sometimes.

[queenoftheskies]

That's a really interesting view. I hadn't considered it because there were other aspects of the story that actually called out to me. So, it adds even more depth to see how other readers interpret the story and also what you've brought to it with your background.

I hope the rest of the week is kinder to you.

[blairmacg]

Okay, so it wasn't just me who didn't see it right away. :)

And goodness, I hope the rest of the week is kinder, too! But I always feel the loss when a weekend is given over to karate tournaments. By the middle of the following week, my introverted self blows everything up into bigger deals than they are. It motivated me to make a snap decision last night to close the dojo for half of spring break. ("It's that, or I run away," I half-jokingly told my secretary.)

[sartorias]

Yeah, I was considerably surprised to see my Inda books listed as military fantasy.

Hey, they calls it as they sees it!

[blairmacg]

You know... I can totally see Inda being pegged as military fantasy, especially after I've had conversations with some vets about how their military experience did, for awhile, act as the family structure they had lacked growing up.