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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
—Walt Disney
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
—Yoko Ono
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Pure fantasy is pure fantasy.
By this, I mean that in the Fantasy genre, and its close relatives, however much things might be different from our consensus reality, there's always a grounding in our reality.
This gives readers a starting point, and it ties into one of the purposes of fantasy: the descriptions of situations that are outside of our normal experience.
For instance, our world rotates on its axis, giving us the cycles of day and night. Most of us experience these cycles; it's a commonality that we share. You can write about a world where it's always day, or night, or twilight, but the starting point, for the reader, is the cycle we're all familiar with.
As another example, interpersonal relationships are something most of us can relate to. In a fantasy story, some of the players in those relationships may be nonhuman, but their differences can serve to highlight what it means to be human, to emphasize some aspect of our nature, or to hold a mirror to it.
And this sort of thing ties into another commonality we have: most of us will, at some point, encounter something previously unknown to us: a different environment, a culture, a work of art; a thing or situation that is outside of our normal experience, our comfort zones.
I maintain that readers (and writers) of Fantasy are better equipped than others to handle these surprises. We're used to contemplating the unusual. But it all starts with a grounding in reality. |
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Last time, in "It's Not a Blue Moon, Part II" , I discussed how falsehoods become peoples' reality.
I can only assume everyone was too dazzled by my brilliance to comment.
So that's it for me for September! See you next month. Until then,
DREAM ON!!!
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Fantasy: September 20, 2023 Issue [#12184]
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