If You Don't Think There Is Magic

A World In Which Elves Exist And Magic Works Offers Greater Opportunities To Digress And Explore.

Writing Fantasy Lets Me Imagine A Great Deal More Than, Say, Writing About Alligators, And Lets Me Write About Places More Distant Than Florida, But I Can Tell You Things About Florida And Alligators, Let You Make The Connection All On Your Own.

In Bad Weather, I Spent Hours Drawing Action Figures On Paper, Coloring Them, Backing Them On Cardboard, Then Cutting Them Out And Creating Whole Stories Around Their Lives.

If You Do Not Hear Music In Your Words, You Have Put Too Much Thought Into Your Writing And Not Enough Heart.

My Breakthrough As A Reader Was When I Discovered The European Adventure Story Writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, To Name A Few.