I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors – between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic – and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab Death • Doors • Doors Between • Life • Magic • Start • Tendency • World
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack. Nora K. Jemisin Conservative • Epic • Epic Fantasy • Fantasy • Job • Out • Tendency
There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas. Nora K. Jemisin American • Best • Culture • Elsewhere • His • Ideas • Know • Tendency • Thought
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