/lit/ - Literature

>>17511529
Mask of the Sorcerer

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>>16682824
They make fun of you because you approach writing fantasy and SF as if it was entirely different from writing literary fiction or mystery novels or whatever. You probably haven't read that much, genre fiction or not. The real issue is you have never in your life read a fantasy or SF book critically, i.e., taking notes, understanding how and why it works, etc.
You come up with Excalibur and think everything should be around that, instead of King Arthur. That's never going to work. You start by coming up with what books you want to emulate, the trinkets, and your retarded maps and stupid shit like "how many orc races are there" instead of thinking of a good character and imagining what could make an interesting plot.