Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and t… - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and t…
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required. - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
That's the great thing about doing good: Anyone can do it, any time, no waiting periods or batteries required.
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to… - Teresa Nielsen Hayden
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when you had to…
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