Lately been having increasingly realistic dreams. So when people say dreams are in the fantasy genre, I'm often confused by what they mean: mine tend to be things likely to happen, that never do.
I mean I'm not against magic per say, but I can see why Sanderson created the Sanderson laws of magic. Though I personally don't think it goes far enough.
When I wrote science fiction, to me interstellar space travel is not Hard Scifi. By extension, for fantasy, I primarily write what I call...
Post Apocalypse (as well as Apocalypse) used to be there own genres in speculative fiction. It wasn't until recently Science Fiction started monopolizing everything, and included these and Dystopia in their ranks. (In indication of how agents don't really know what they're doing.)
Much of my Science fiction is a harder variant of Post Apocalyptic fantasy. In fact, I believe the apocalypse in itself closer to fantasy than science fiction.
1. I'm lesbian and trans.
2. I'll write about whatever characters I want to.
3. I consider people telling me what characters to write about on the same level as telling me whom to bed with.
I also don't think about whether my characters are sympathetic or not. I just write them.
What it seems to be is your primary strength is in backgrounds. I'm more of a character artist myself. What I might recommend is continuing to work on this aspect, and eventually you might find a character artist that will work with you. I know it took a while for me to find cover art.
But I...
I got one, other than cryptography, and early steganography such as Grille and Null Ciphers, what other characteristics made 19th century espionage different from modern day tradecraft?
A lot of my work blends timelines, but I know NSA wasnt around until the 1940s.
I know they didn't have this...