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Fantasy: January 10, 2018 Issue [#8693]

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 This week: The Lollipop
  Edited by: Aennaytte: Free & Wild in GoT
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

Dear fantasy readers and writers, I am Aennaytte: Free & Wild in GoT and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

The Lollipop


Let's talk about lollipops.


Writers of fantasy have to spend a fair amount of words to describe the world and the creatures they write about. Since, by definition, a fantasy story would happen in an alternate universe, or happen in a warped version of reality, it's necessary to give the reader enough to see.

As you describe your fantasy world, how far can you rely on your reader's ability to fill in what you're describing? When it comes to things you invented, more detail will be better. When you're talking about something from normal life, less will be better.

This is where we come to the lollipop.

The blue hand-sized pixie fairy fluttered away, carrying off my multicolored and shaped like a tornado, sweet and gooey, candy ball on a stick.

Or

The blue hand-sized pixie fairy fluttered away, carrying off my multicolored lollipop.

Did you see how both sentences say the same thing? The fairy, which is the fantasy creature, keeps its complete description. The lollipop ends up being multicolored.

It's entirely up to you if you want to be verbose or not. Just be aware that readers are more likely to wander off to another piece where the plot cuts to the chase and gives them a story to participate in rather than exaggerated descriptions of mundane items.


Editor's Picks

 Behind the Vines  (E)
"The Fairies know who she is." The stories her aunt had told her were only fairy tales;
#2043544 by Jill H. O'Bones

 Fairy Ballet  (E)
Poem for contest with Prompt
#1720764 by eyestar~*

 
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The Princess's Smile  (E)
A short fairy tale.
#2141301 by Genipher

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Casual Wish  (E)
All she wanted was a day off work but got a visit from the wee folk instead.
#1953265 by GeminiGem of House Lannister

STATIC
And His Name Is . . .   (ASR)
A retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale . . . with a few differences.
#2142660 by Choconut ~ House Targaryen

 
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The Three-Headed Dragon  (ASR)
A children's fairytale of love and loss and happily-ever-after
#961430 by W.D.Wilcox

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#2041869 by Not Available.

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The True Tale Of Tinker Bell   (ASR)
Canto #1. How Tinker Bell first met Peter Pan - dispelling the myths in an epic poem.
#2118094 by Christopher Roy Denton

Thrice Prompted  (E)
This is now reopened. this is for everybody who joins, or wishes to join our group.
#2016845 by David the Dark one!

 
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