I'm Trying To Make All The Characters

Because In Fantasy Perhaps More Than In Any Other Genre, The Character Is Rewarded For Making The Right Choices And Punished For Making The Bad. Ask Boromir.

There Is No Pain Greater Than This; Not The Cut Of A Jagged-edged Dagger Nor The Fire Of A Dragon's Breath. Nothing Burns In Your Heart Like The Emptiness Of Losing Something, Someone, Before You Truly Have Learned Of Its Value.

Whenever You're Writing A Book Or Creating A Movie Or A Game, Your First Task Is To Get The Reader To Suspend Disbelief, To Buy Into The Logic And Boundaries Of Your World, Even Though Those Boundaries Might Include Things Like Dragons And Magic.

"a Man Inferior With The Blade Or With His Thoughts Can Still So Elevate Himself," Entreri Explained Curtly, "if He Can Impart The Belief That Some God Or Other Speaks Through Him. It Is The Greatest Deception In All The World And One Embraced By Kings And Lords, While The Minor Lying Thieves On The Streets Or Calimport And Other Cities Lose Their Tongues For So Attempting To Coax The Purses Of Others."

It Is More Difficult By Far To Be Independent Of Our Own Inner Shackles Than It Is Of The Shackles That Others Might Place Upon Us.