 Fantasy: April 11, 2018 Issue [#8843] |
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This week: Flight Edited by: Robert Waltz  
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
-Victor Hugo
There's something just magical about flight. Period.
-Graham Hawkes
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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Consider flying.
I don't mean the aggravating, cramped mess it has become, with security theater, uncomfortable seats, baggage fees and expensive add-ons. Those are enough to put anyone off of the idea of flying.
I mean the actual idea of flying.
It's one of those things that's too ubiquitous to be cliché, too common to be overused. It taps in to basic human desires - which is weird when you think about it; it's not like we evolved from flying creatures.
In stories, flying can serve many purposes - as a means of escape (figuratively or literally), a way to gain perspective, a simple means of transportation, a symbol of power, and others.
Similarly, the means of flight can take different forms, from the flapping of a bird's wings to helicopter rotors to a superhero's activity to rocketing through space.
We're writing fantasy, after all - so take it to new heights when you can.
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Last time, in "Einstein Was Wrong!" , I warned against ignoring scientific principles.
Quick-Quill  (submitting "Creating the Supernatural World" [E]): This is not to say that you can't play around with concepts like wormholes, teleportation, magic spells, warp drive, whatever. Just know when you're violating the laws of physics, and why, and have some explanation for it.
For me this was the crowning paragraph. I have a article(included) that says the same thing. It bothers me when new authors think they can throw magic, science and whatever on a page without thinking it through. If someone has a magic rock, ring, wand. It has to come from somewhere with a past story. Nothing appears out of no where to create havoc without some form of a creator. There is only one God that can create something from nothing and he has a plan too. Great Newsletter!!
All I'm saying is, just as an abstract painter should first learn how to do realistic portraits, writers should be firmly grounded in reality before flying off of it. And flying can be rewarding.
BIG BAD WOLF is Howling  : Of course, if the planet is something other than sphere shaped, like Terry Pratchett's Discworld, then you might want to figure out a few things. Or, just chalk it up to magic.
Discworld is certainly a lot of fun.
And that's it for me for now - see you next time! Until then,
DREAM ON!!!
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