If you could write your own fantasy....

[Andara Bledin]

It's probably a very good thing (for me, at least) that there was no Internet when I was writing the utter crap I wrote when I was still in school.

^-.-^

[Hyena Dandy]

The last fantasy novel I wrote ( its not published, don't get your hopes up ;p ) the hero was capable but in over his head and being manipulated left right and center. He could handle himself in a fight well enough, but they were fights and he rarely walked away calm or intact. He also rarely had a fight that was actually to his advantage as his own fighting style was ill-suited for the situation he was in.

I also didn't really have good guys or bad guys, just motivations. There wasn't even an epic final battle or anything. -.-

My writing has come quite a ways since then though, and my next novel will be...interesting me thinks. And it will be published. Even if I have to sleep my way into a publishing deal. ;p

Or phonesex your way in?

[Amanita]

I have a story I wrote, a bit of an urban animist fantasy. Sears Tower is able to "manifest"- that is, separate his consciousness from his steel body, taking on a flesh and blood "incarnate" form, for the first time ever. He spends part of the story checking himself out in an unoccupied office, taking in this new form of his.

I showed it to a friend of mine who was also a field officer for the security company I worked for. She showed it to a friend of hers, who was absolutely gobsmacked. "That's amazing, there's no way a guard wrote that!" was his reaction.

[DrFaroohk]

Sometimes I want a story that's just...a story. Here's what happened. Nothing manufactured to make it fit into some literary pattern. This is the story of _______. It may not conform exactly to lord of the rings or the great gatsby, but...it's just a story.

[anakhouri]

Have you read David Gemmel then? He's a quick read and very entertaining. No real anti-heroes or moral ambiguity. Sometimes you just want to the good guys to win and true love to conquer all.