Fantasy: The Ultimate Escape! Devri Walls Breaks into Fiction and estevanvega.com

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Fantasy: The Ultimate Escape! Devri Walls Breaks into Fiction and estevanvega.com

Some of you may not know Devri Walls, but I have a feeling that’s going to change very soon. She writes fun, magical stories, and her new book Wings of Arian, has been doing considerably well on the Kindle charts the last few weeks. So I asked her to invade the site for a day and talk about her love for fantasy and why she chooses to write in this genre. So…lend her your eyes for a bit, and allow yourself a bit of escape!

So Estevan wants to know why I write fantasy. And this is the part where I admit I was a total nerd for a large majority of my childhood. Well, let me amend that. First I was mercilessly teased and harassed for a few years, after which I fell into being a nerd. I think by the time I graduated I had migrated to ‘middle of the road’. Yea for me!

What does that have to do with anything you may ask? When I was growing up I loved reading because it was the only place where I could escape from everything. I would go to the library, come out with arms stacked nearly to my chin, and disappear in my room for hours. It was so bad that my parents literally banned me from the library. Yes, you read that right. My parents banned me from books. Now, not all books gave me that escape I craved. Some were too real and hit too close to home and just made the hurt worse. But Fantasy… well, that is a different story!

Fantasy always gave me that total escape I was looking for, into worlds so different from our own. I also loved the idea of having special abilities, or magic! To be honest it is probably because I felt like there was so much more inside of me than what people were seeing. It almost felt like I had some super secret hidden super power. Only I just couldn’t seem to get it out. But in a book, it could all come out!

Then it got even better. Because now I don’t just read fantasy, I write it!! This allows me that total escape from everything (even those kids going, “mom, mom, mom…”). But it also allows me a complete release of all my pent up creative energy.

I write YA Fantasy because I really do like my fantasy just a little more low key. High Fantasy has too much detail for me. I don’t feel the need to read or write anything that requires maps, a pedigree chart and a five page description of the dwarfs’ lair. (I’m sorry, high fantasy lovers.) Now, it’s not that I don’t EVER read high fantasy, but I have been known to scan the description of said dwarfs’ lair.

Perhaps it’s because I am not very observant. I am one of those people who drives by a Walmart they have been building for months and say, “Hey! When did they build that!?” Just not my thing. I am usually focusing on people. How they move, what they said, how they said it, body language. People amuse me. I like watching their interactions. Mix that with my degree in theater and you have the perfect mix for a YA Fantasy reader and writer!