Not exactly the most appealing prose, right? Well, that's because I just can't write fantasy. Or speculative fiction or science fiction for that matter. In my writing I am incapable of placing characters in strange, far-off worlds, where the culture and religion and history is so much different than our own.
Or can I?
Read the rest of my guest post on Alison Strachan's blog = Writing My Truth.
Alas, Ellis, I am a fantasy writer. But I love a good travel story, and I love history, so your book is probably right up my alley.
ReplyDeleteWe could have a debate on what consitutes 'speculative fiction'. Isn't all fiction speculative? Doesn't it all start, when it's a seed in the author's mind, with 'what if'? It matters not, methinks (there, you can see I write fantasy!) whether we start with a medieval professor, a new kid at the kibbutz, or a princess in a tower - it's all a pack of lies when all's said and done. Lies with a veneer of truth, if we've done our research properly, and done properly, it reads like truth - but the real truth in all fiction surely comes from what the reader learns about the human condition. Fiction, I believe, is made up of lies that point to the truth. And if truth be told, so is much non-fiction, although it doesn't point to the truth nearly as well as good fiction!
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