Fantasy Writers' Aesthetic Problem: European Fantasy? What Kind? Which Nation? The Lesson Must be Learnt to Nail your Setting - Fiction Guide: How to Never Fail at Writing

The Aesthetic Problem

There’s something that ‘fantasy’ writers struggle with and have struggled with for quite some time. What’s that something? Why none other than that most important of questions that everyone always’ asks about one’s work; ‘what’s the story like?’ which is code for the ‘setting’.

The thing about the story’s ‘setting’ is that it is the …