Sunday, September 12, 2010

Trust Sanderson to get it right

Am still working on writing and trying to get something that I want to share posted. In the meantime, Sanderson captures a lot of my internal struggle very well in this post.

Particularly:

It seems that everyone I talked to had their own spin on how they were going to revolutionize the genre with their brilliant twist on the fantasy epic. Unfortunately, a lot of us were a little unambitious in our twists. (“My elves are short, rather than tall!” or “I’m going to make orcs a noble warrior culture, not just a group of evil, thoughtless monsters!”) Our hearts were good; our methods were problematic. I remember growing dissatisfied with this (specifically with my own writing, which was going through some of the same not-so-original originality problems), though I couldn’t ever define quite why.