Story & Why I Write Fantasy

Yesterday I spoke to the University of Canterbury’s creative writing class about “story” and writing process—which was a lot of fun and I hope at least something in what I had to say was encouraging.

In the susbequent discussion, one of the students asked me why I chose to write Fantasy and although I tried to say something eloquent and inspiring, the gist was, “because I love it.”

But in 2012, I addressed this very question on SF Signal, in what I feel was a reasonably eloquent and slightly fu...