Recent content by Alva

I'd say Dexter and Breaking Bad are great examples of increasing amount of difficult. Both series present complicated character relationships and hard decisions. I personally enjoy "the butterfly effect" of hardship or how (for instance) a single lie that concerns just one person leads to more...

True. I admit that beginners may find it easier to familiarize themselves with fantasy by using stock characters. And I guess every genre has its own set of stock characters, too, so it's not only fantasy-related. Plus, it seems that great many people start writing by creating fanfiction...

That is exactly the thing I'm wondering. But maybe not everybody needs to have the novelty element to motivate them to write. I do, though. Plus, creating a species of ones own grants much more freedom to roam. That is a good example. I must admit that I can somewhat relate to need for...

I'm having the same problem, though I've grown up to be extremely picky. I'm quite character orientated, so too typical or - at worst - clichée presentations of elves (for instance) are instant interest killers to me. Absolutely instant. Thus, I tend to read only low fantasy and avoid...

This is a type of answer I was looking for. And I see the point. I just still wonder how come the novelty of this premise last so long! It amazes me how people don't grow tired of writing about elves or orcs - even after they have read dozens of other books about them(?) I myself can't even...

Well... I guess it is so then. Though I'm dissappointed. Just very, deeply deeply disappointed. I was hoping that people would answer me other than marketing. ": ) I actually study literature at university so I have an idea on how publishing world rolls. But it's just saddening that most people...

Hmm. True. But I'm still looking for deeper and maybe even somewhat more "intellectual" reasons. Individual reasons. It would be a sad world if all those thousands of elve populations were only to exist due to their popularity among possible target audience(s). I'd like to know if there are some...

That is a valid point and I'm sure both Tolkien and D&D have a lot to do with popularity of many of the beings I mentioned. However, it is still not an answer to the question I have in mind. : ) I'm not actually interested in how came the typical fantasy beings being so typical, but what it is...

I apologize for the long start but I think it is somewhat bearable in order to set up my question: - - - I consider myself an avid reader of fantasy. I crave to read about new worlds, new places, new cultures and new characters. I enjoy new plants and new animals and new everything...

Ah well. Thank you. Now I'm once again a bit more informed. : D As said, I've never been into vampire stories. Even Dracula is still waiting for his turn... and has been for years. Indeed. : ) But it's an interesting debate nonetheless, even though I'm not personally agreeing with the point.

Very true. I try my best to be careful and honest when representing pretty much anything: whether it was an illness or disability or LGBTQ relationship or religion… or any member of a group of people in question. But still, I do want to write about a variety of things. And in real life I know...

By a happy accident, while surfing on the net. : D I even originally forgot to favourite the link and well... lost my way to here for a while until I was able to regain my memory concerning on the correct spelling of the site title.

Have to agree with Telcontar. Concepts and means of power are of interest to me, as well. Also, such things as - scholarship - loss - loneliness - feelings of otherness - conflicting personalities - nature (ah, well... ecological themes to some extent) - blindness and - introverted characters...

Hmm. I think there are cases that have proven it hard at times to differentiate between "mere" fanfiction and original thinking. I won't go into lenghts this time, either, but I've already listed some examples in my post above... All I'm saying is that a dialogue between two works of art can be...

Well, I've never bothered to write fanfiction and I've only rarely bother to read any. But still, I have nothing against it. Well written fanfiction should be regarded as dialogue with the original work, not only doing it easy and low and somehow benefitting from the already imagined places and...