So I was like, hay, analysis is cool…
Dear Die-ary,
Today I realised that all fantasy/sci-fi writers seem to be a bit loose in the head.
It seems to be the high fantasy is being adopted by kids who’ve been outcast at school and forced to retreat into a fantasy world where they have god mode and can slay monsters, get the girl and be the hero. They get so into this fantasy world, that they begin to believe themselves to be the hero of the literary world and end up as stuck-up little prats who think the sun shines for them alone. Or the end up in a dozen other forms of delusion about themselves.
If not that, then fantasy seems to be chosen by kids who fantasise a lot in real life – and the darker, grittier fantasy stories seem to point towards those kids who’ll fantasize about you dying horrible if you dare look at them the wrong way. The kids who tend to have a fear of everyone else in the world, and see guys with knives waiting for them in the shadows at the top of the stairs, or expect to find bodies lying in baths full of their own blood whenever they go to the bathroom at night.
I’ve also learned that, for fantasy writers, editors are like those massive bosses that you have to go through hell with before the battles over, but once they’re defeated, you get a really awesome prize. However, they’re also bosses that seem to only appear once you collect this item and do this and that and cut this and hack that and show up on time in the right place, and even then, it’s just a random chance a wild editor will appear.
To solve this, I’m pretty sure publishing companies have caught ‘em all and trapped them in tiny little plastic balls to stop anyone else getting them. Unfortunately, this includes a vast majority of writers.
I’m beginning to wish I’d done some realistic writing. But I’m pretty sure that, realistic authors never get anywhere. I guess all authors are closet fantasists. Everyone’s mad in this line of work.
That, and I fit into that second category *so well*.
