Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


27 Apr 1995 15:17:40 GMT

In article <3nlq4a$rlk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, MeiTien <meitien@aol.com> wrote:
>I have been reading all your posts and downloaded the authorship and read
>that also. It helped me a lot. But, I wonder why there is no mention of
>any asian favored fantasy or subjects? Has IF been focused strictly on
>western cultures due to its highly language dependent art?
>
>Mei-Tien

See, just as I wouldn't write a game from a woman's point of view because
I couldn't do justice to the viewpoint, neither would I try and expound
too much on a subject that I couldn't do justice to (at least in my own
opinion). I would love to see a post about writing Asian Fantasy appear
here on raif, but I don't think I could pull it off.

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