#maybe reading bad fantasy from my uni workshops has tainted the genre further

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Hey!

2. That one genre you always try to avoid writing about and why?

7. Which OC do you want to punch in the face?

I've already done #7 so here's #2!

2. High fantasy. I just... I never really got into it as much as other people did, and my few attempts to write it have felt really limp and half-baked. I think it's just the nature of the genre: high fantasy stories typically need a shitload of exposition and setup before the plot kicks off, otherwise you're introducing totally foreign concepts to the reader at every turn. I know this isn't a hard and fast rule, but with a genre less grounded in human experience, you have to make a lot of concessions.

Note that I'm not disparaging fantasy in any way! If you're out there stumbletumblr-ing over this post and you write high fantasy, you're cool as hell! This is just my experience with reading and writing high fantasy :P