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'illor, but
of
wizards
hnrling
spells-urJess there
is some
very
good
reason
the
wi7Ards
do
not
involved.
Si:rth:
If a
story
can
be
written
without a
fantasy
element,
then
don't
bother
with the
fantasy element
Some
tlm:ta :y
stories
are simp!.y
war
stories,
wizards
throwing fireballs
place
cannons,
or
love bi:o,ries,
with one comer
of
2
triangle
an elf-maiden
or a
werewolf il'.stead
redhead
Accounting
Department, or
adventure
stories,
where
the bli'l:Zliird is sent
by a sorcerer
rsther
than
a
low pressure
system. Simply
tellill,g an
ordinary
love
story,
where
one person
is
a
werewolf,
is
pointless Uc'l!ess
her
lycanthropy
affects
relationship son1ehow.
con:-.mon
of all
is
the
v.-ar
or ad'.rer:tnre story that
uses
a
fa.;1tasy setting
because the writer cannot
be bothered
tc
properly research an appropriate
historical
environment.
you
are going
to
trouble
of
a
fantasy story,
then ilie
entire plot
should evolve
from
farrm-y
elements. Explore
the
branches of
a
complex spell,
o:r
figure
out
what
it
would
be
tike
to
happen
if
gods
really walked
the
ear'<:h, or create
a
way that
a
world
could really
exist
still
have
gravity
and oceans.
Or there
is
the sort
of fantasy
adds ll'l.
impossible
element
to our everyday
world.
short,
to
fantasy,
you
your
fantasy wo:rld--which can
be
almost
our ovvn, or
alien--put
people
in
it
of
the
sort
who
vvould
really
live
such a place, present them with a problem
develops
one of the
elements
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