Writing fantasy, warts and all.

I posted in September 2012 about writing fantasy and the guilty pleasure it gave me. That idea came from an article written in 2005 by Sandra Miller and in this, she rehearses the responses that most of us need to prepare when we talk about ourselves as writers–if we dare.

Personally, I steer people away from the topic as much as I can and talk about warts instead. I find warts a pretty good alternative because of their universality. People can understand warts because most people have had one...