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When Writing Fantasy, Kill Your Darlings. Literally.

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2024-11-22 04:30:03

My family has been watching the second (and final) season of Arcane on Netflix. Arcane is a TV-series version of the video game League of Legends. Thus, by all the Laws of Nature, it should be unwatchable. Yet, shockingly, it is pretty good.

The great joy of Arcane is that its creators are keeping it short. A total of 18 episodes. Around 11 hours. Whether this is for artistic or budgetary reasons does not interest me. Eleven hours is enough time to tell just about any story.

This is great because it gets us into the last season quickly. If you are writing a fantasy epic, unless you really seriously blow it, the last season is going to be awesome.

Because you get to kill everyone and blow up the world. Arcane is killing characters left and right, and that enables good fantasy.

Fantasy and fables strip away the mundane annoyances of everyday human life. Instead, fantasy conveys the values of the society that makes it. That's why we tell fantasy stories to children so often.

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