Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Something a bit more sober.

In my previous post, I found that I was nigh incomprehensible. Here, I will begin exposing my opinions about literature.
My favorite kind is fantasy. Anything with dragons, magic, forgotten mysteries or any combination of the three gives me tingly goosebumps of goodness.* These include Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Series and his book Elantris, plus many others too numerous to mention.
(Lately, I've been playing a fantasy game called Folklore for the PS3, and I mostly have been playing it just for the mysterious plot being revealed. It's that element that makes these books and games hard to reread, but still fantastic.)
I've been trying to write a fantasy story for quite some time, always planning and starting but always stopping abruptly, then beginning again with a different plot. Currently I have no less than five or six beginning pages typed up for fantasy stories, but they always poop out....
Another interesting bit about these stories is that I always end up using the same characters. Their roles, inheritances and loyalties may vary from tale to tale, but each character remains essentially the same.

Thanks for paying attention. You may now frolick.
*Okay, certain restrictions apply. In all truth, I am a devilish book critic. This gets me into no end of trouble.

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