Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Too Much Magic: The Pitfalls of Writing Fantasy

Anything can happen in a fantasy story. So how can writers prevent theirs from spiralling out of control?

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Alec Worley
Feb 21, 2023
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Illustration by Henry Justice Ford for Andrew Lang’s ‘The Red Romance Book’ via Wikimedia Commons

Fantasy (along with the more fantastical strains of sci-fi) is hazardous terrain for storytellers. Fantasy deals in magic, which can manifest itself in countless forms, from the secondary worlds of Oz, Wonderland and Middle-Earth, to levitating nannies, gobl…

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