What’s the key in creating a interesting, investing and immersive fantasy world?
>>23816911reading interesting, investing and immersive fantasy books.
>>2381716599.9% of people who do this can't create interesting, investing and immersive fantasy books though
>>23817176If your definition excludes 99.9% of all fantasy novels in existence, maybe it’s not the books that are the issue here?
>>23816911Copying a historical setting, changing the names, and adding some supernatural elements
>>23817165The exact opposite of this. People who only read genre fiction write poor genre fiction. It's writers who read the sources that inspired the genre that are capable of writing genuinely good genre fiction, i.e. Tolkien, Howard, Bakker.
>>23817260>Bakker
>>23816911By writing characters that follow a goal with meaningful stakes that makes them interact with that world. AKA the plot. LOTR: Destroy the ringSong of fire and ice: sit on the iron throneInheritance cycle: get rid of galbatorixArmy of darkness: get ash back to his own timeAnd so forth.
>>23816911have fun
>>23816911Study a historical period.https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/on-thud-and-blunder/
>>23817782This has ended my writers block, which I have been struggling with for over a year, thank you.
>>23817782it do be unironically like this
>>23817782based
>>23817233>19th century India >Call it Kasrot controlled by the Colonial West Wing Company >A detective teams up with a mage (obscure class) to hunt down warlock serial killer Kino or cringe?
>>23816911Sex scenes every 2 pages.
