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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I certainly wish you'd remind some of your brothers in arms about the "collaborative effort" part. Because one of my favorite genres is going down the toilet (for me anyway) because of a rising trend in authors who feel the need to micromanage my experience of their personal vision under the guise of "world-building." It's like they're afraid I'll get their vision "wrong" or something. My imagination gets pissed when the author tries to do everything for it. |
Ha! You're talking about the epic fantasy sub-genre? I like meaty descriptions and all, but there's a time and place for it, and it seems like a lot of epic fantasy authors have that writing style just because they think it's part of the sub-genre... but it's not really necessary for a good story. Wield nice prose when you've got it, when you don't, cut to the chase. I like sinking my teeth into pages and pages of descriptions, but that's not very often, and it has to be done well rather than info-dumping-ey. Epic fantasy, please have different writing styles. Epic fantasy doesn't need to mean epic word count or epic foliage.