The Dark Ages of Fantasy

The era had a lot of creativity, but the unrelenting gloom was a laziness on its own. I hit that problem a while ago. I’m not quite sure how to leave.

I’m trying to write fantasy where everything isn’t terrible but meaningless.

There’s a common thread in Severian the Torturer, Elric, and Corwin. They all do horrible things to others, but those things aren’t considered significant other than as they apply to the feelings of the main character. Other people matter in the real world, and Macbeth wasn’t a hero.

Drawing

The best way to learn whatever is to do it. Certain things are probably unwise to attempt in this fashion: piloting and mountaineering spring to mind. Drawing and writing can’t really hurt you if you do them poorly, though, so party on and draw and write away.

Thematic stuff

I’ve been flirting with an idea for a little bit, and I’m going to put it into practice. There will be no complaining on LC.

What brought this on was yesterday’s comment about the stimulus checks. To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with disagreeing with the checks from an economic standpoint. Both Bush stimuli and the later Obama one did little to support the economy. Debts got paid off, but there wasn’t much of a bump in employment or wage gains. I personally don’t think they’re a wise choice.

But I’m not mad about it. People are.

I was put off by that attitude, and I don’t know how much of it I’m doing too. It’s invisible to me when I’m doing it. So I’m going to draw a line in the sand, no complaining, for a month and see if I can make the habit stick. I’m not saying forever because those goals are often unreachable. But if I can do a month, April, I’ll see about pushing out another month.