What are your favorite character types? Current trends? Clever plotlines? Enthralling settings? What's being done right out there in your favorite genres? What do you want to see more of in your favorite genre? _________________ Violet "Violanthe" Kane
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More work, that's what I want to see.I realize that the basic number of plotlines is limited, as are character types, settings and so forth. What lifts any work of fiction above the ordinary is the amount of work a writer puts into all of the above.
As noted elsewhere, too many writers in too many genres are lazy (the example given was the reliance on the tenets of Tolkien's milieu, such as dwarves and elves hating each other.) and churn out plots and characters that are nearly interchangeable. Give me someone that will write fantasy or sciencce fiction equivalent of, say "The life of Pi". Someone willing to work at their stories to make them as fresh and entertqaining as possible, rather than churning out the same old self gratifying masturbatory crap.
Most modern fantasy, unfortunately. If you wabnt some really formulaic crap, Piers Anthony's Xanth franchise (much like a McDonald's franchise: lotsa dressing, not much meat...) or R.A. Salvatore's endless Dragonlance novels from Dungeons and Dragons.
There are talented writers out there, and some of them must be writing engaging speculative fiction....It's just hard to find them, I think.
Regards,
M. Graham _________________ Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books.
For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring,
but to him they are but toys of the moment,
to be overturned with the flick of a finger. -- Gordon R.Dickson
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