khiemtran | (no subject)

anghara made some interesting comments about fiction with a kernel of truth. I think this is what I aim for in my fantasy and is what makes fantasy writing both easy and hard. Easy because you have so much scope to shape the setting and to claim truth in your world, hard because in the end, the real world keeps biting back and saying "no, it's not like that". My goal is to one day tell a story that's true to the river people of this world. And true to the hill people and the city people and the sea people. I couldn't start to claim to know the cultures of the hill or river or sea peoples in this world, but I'd like to produce something that at least they'd recognize, and nod at, and say "yes, this is what it is like".