/lit/ - Literature

>>21225905
Well, the answer lies in the name. Fantasy allows us to venture outside of the everyday, so good fantasy takes advantage of that opportunity to show us perspectives that wouldn't be possible in real life. A lot of fantasy novels just use the genre as a just-add-water setting with not much care or thought put into why they are writing fantasy.

In terms of concrete steps, what often distinguishes bad fantasy from good fantasy is worldbuilding. Create a fleshed-out world with interconnecting systems but be careful to not spam boring details. For example, designing factions and writing outlines of their histories before you get started is thinking ahead, but creating conlangs before you even know what the story is going to be is going overboard. Just like stories with well thought-out characters, stories with good settings tend to write themselves a little bit and its more difficult to mess things up.

Since we're posting pics of people with shelves, i think pic related has a great shelve.

>Molecular Biology
>PhD Student
>Journey to the end of the Night
>Suicide of the West
>Dunno yet, any recommendations?

Im pretty intelligent and have a great career in science (2 publications in Cell subjournals), but i feel like im inadequate when it comes to literature and philosophy, and so im trying to catch up.

Also i cant help but post women with big tits whenever i can, no idea why.

>>12657485
and i describe them as soulless doll-eyes