Why I Write Fantasy, Part 2 – Believing With Alice

My last post was a study in romance .

I examined that deep surge of feeling I experience at the end of a good romance story, and realized it is Wonder: joy so fierce and poignant, it aches, reminding me that everything sad will come – and, in certain moments/places, is already coming – untrue. I renewed my mission statement of sharing Wonder through my writing, and I also promised to explain in my next post why I write fantasy instead of romance.

The answer is almost embarrassingly...