2WayParadox
Sage
I don't know about you, but my background in reading fantasy has been mostly large epics. The Wheel of Time for example is a good 10000 pages. That's a huge investment of time. Say you read 40 pages an hour at top speed, can be more or less (it's been a while since I checked how fast I read). It would still take 250 hours, or ten and a half days of uninterrupted full speed reading, to finish the whole thing.
So that's my background. That shaped my vision of fantasy.
My view of short stories is that you have a peculiar thought, situation, thought experiment or whatever and you turn that into a short story. I've written a few, one about a reporter interviewing people wanting to commit suicide without permission and another about a man who has been blinded and is kept in a cell, he is then joined by a woman who is deafened and they give each other strength. To me it's easy to see how a little seed like this can flow into a short story, it probably also doesn't have more potential than that.
Now, when I think about fantasy, I think about magic, I think about a quest, I think about worlds and stuff happening. I automatically think of novels.
So my question to those who write Fantasy short stories: How do you see them? What is the kind of idea you've turned into a fantasy short? Send it to me for a critique if you don't mind me saying whatever comes to mind. ([email protected])
Do you have an idea like 'wouldn't it be cool to see a young dwarf betting his friends he can shit on a dragon's head?' and then go on to write it? Is it no more than a normal short story idea, but then with fantasy elements?
Or do you use short stories to work out stuff from your world in progress? Like magic spells, religion stuff, races, developing a view on a culture?
I'm here to learn, so show me what you've got to offer.
So that's my background. That shaped my vision of fantasy.
My view of short stories is that you have a peculiar thought, situation, thought experiment or whatever and you turn that into a short story. I've written a few, one about a reporter interviewing people wanting to commit suicide without permission and another about a man who has been blinded and is kept in a cell, he is then joined by a woman who is deafened and they give each other strength. To me it's easy to see how a little seed like this can flow into a short story, it probably also doesn't have more potential than that.
Now, when I think about fantasy, I think about magic, I think about a quest, I think about worlds and stuff happening. I automatically think of novels.
So my question to those who write Fantasy short stories: How do you see them? What is the kind of idea you've turned into a fantasy short? Send it to me for a critique if you don't mind me saying whatever comes to mind. ([email protected])
Do you have an idea like 'wouldn't it be cool to see a young dwarf betting his friends he can shit on a dragon's head?' and then go on to write it? Is it no more than a normal short story idea, but then with fantasy elements?
Or do you use short stories to work out stuff from your world in progress? Like magic spells, religion stuff, races, developing a view on a culture?
I'm here to learn, so show me what you've got to offer.