by Drew Ellenwood | Mar 12, 2014 | Fantasy & Theology
When I think about what makes an engaging character in a book, I begin to think on what it means to be a person. What is ‘me’? In writing science fantasy, I’m not interested in simply ‘human’. Human is a species. I want to know what it means to be a person no...
by Drew Ellenwood | Dec 4, 2013 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
Time travel, ghosts, entities from another dimension. Now that’s great fantasy. But you mostly don’t think of Charles Dickens. More’s the pity. Fantasy A Christmas Carol is classic literature… and classic fantasy. The novel has what fantasy needs: Memorable...
by Drew Ellenwood | Sep 27, 2013 | Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fantasy & Theology
In order to connect with us meager humans in the real world, a fantasy novel needs to have at least a few things in common with life as we know it. Your populace could well have tentacles about their mouths or three arms at the top of their heads or hair on the...
