My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.
My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books of that time. The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis were my favorites and, later, Tolkien's The Lord...
When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow." From The Bow of Destiny
Do you feel it? That roaring call?
Hastra, you think you see, but you don't see this. You never have." Corgren, from The Bow of Destiny
So an inerrant archer who's inaccurate." Hastra to Athson, from The Bow of Destiny
Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny
Once you become a known writer, you will not have bad books anymore. You will only have less good books than the good ones.
If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. No...
Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.
