Last week on my dark fiction review site I said that was the genre for thinking and knowing the what ifs. Well, fantasy is the genre to dream and believe in the what ifs.
Yes, knowing and believing are two different things.
Fantasy is the mind’s freedom. When writing we don’t need to explain why something happens…why a full grown human adult can fly with butterfly wings no bigger than the human torso. Just believe the wings will hold and carry us across the distance. Yes, ladybugs sing opera while the wee folk dance a jig to the leprechauns fiddling. And dogs meow while cats drink gin.
Fantasy will bring you to other worlds of magic and even guardian werewolves and loving vampires. You may even find a cankerous old whale to sail you through the universes in search of snoring dragons and bagpipe playing gargoyles.
Or maybe you’ll find yourself on a quest through Daymares of hunting horsemen and power-tripping mega-egos of world dominating shadow-fairies. Or the devil himself…herself…itself?
Then there’s always the chance you’re on an alternate reality meeting yourself.
If you can dream it, fantasy can write it.