Letting In the Dragons, Part IV
... wearing out seven pairs of iron shoes as they walked the world in search of their dreams; stories of elves and unicorns, of magic rings ...
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Letting the Dragons In, Part III
... and elves and magic aren't really real, in the daylight world we all inhabit, so when authors use them in books, they are nearly ... -- the power to make things happen your way, which in our world is sometimes the political power, sometimes the power of great wads of ...
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... little Honda is. At its best, fiction looks at the world and makes people see it in new ways; it challenges their assumptions and ... or a dragon incinerating trash at the town dump. The world may have two moons, or three, or none; wizards and magic may have ...
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... anyone's guess whether I'll write more in this world. Right now, I can think of dozens of stories that would be interesting to tell in this world, but I get tired of writing about the same places and people fairly ...
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... to Pat's gracious approval, it does take place in the same world as the Kate and Cecy books (my half of it anyway), and Thomas is an ...
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... that goes on long enough -- the characters save the world (or whatever) and get stronger and better during the process, so saving the world again would be not only repetitive but too easy to be interesting. The ...
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... -- what does she want more than anything else in the world, and what's stopping her from getting it? What's she going to do to try ...
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... lacking in meaning." -- George Orwell "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." -- H. G. ...
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... and that the heroes will have generic we-gotta-save-the-world ...
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... blame it on, just the Dark Lord Who Wants To Take Over The World Because He Is Really, Really Evil. There are ways of making such a ... real reasons why one's villain is trying to conquer the world, commit genocide, kill the hero, and swipe the very last chocolate chip ...
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