Fantasy

What is Fantasy?

The easy answer is a fantastical tale that has no basis in reality.

However, words cannot stand alone. One needs to weave them into a sequence that makes sense to the reader, and thus there has to be grounding, the basis for the tale, be it another world, time or place right here on Earth. That basis is drawn from imagination and real life. To explain to the reader that there is no floor in the chamber, well, the reader and the writer both understand the concept floor...do you see where I'm going?

A more correct answer is that fantasy is tweaking reality...and therefore allows imagination to soar.

A note here: publishers call this genre fiction and it can be a nightmare to get them to even read a manuscript. I submit to you that there are so many of us seeking to escape for a little while the stresses of real life that genre fiction should be celebrated and made readily available. After all, how fantastical is another world, really?

Do we not dream?