Now, why did you feel the need to create an entire world to tell the story of the characters you’ve created?
Well, fantasy offers certain flexibilities that are not available in mainstream fiction, for example. Mainstream fiction has mostly areas of gray. You can occasionally talk about stark blacks and stark whites in fantasy. Now, I believe there is such a thing as good and such a thing as evil. There is right, and there is wrong. ‘Situational ethics’ is the most misunderstood and misused term in the world, perhaps. There are times when it is difficult to say what is the right thing to do, and what is the wrong thing, or even to say what is good and what is evil. But in a great deal of contemporary fiction, the attitude seems to be that, because it’s difficult to tell, ‘Well, we don’t really need to make the effort. We’ll just drift along and do what comes our way, and if it’s good, or if it’s bad, or if it’s evil, well, that’s someone else’s perception, isn’t it? That’s all it is.’ Well it isn’t. These things exist—good and evil, right and wrong—and it’s worth spending a little time and a little effort to try to figure out which is which even when it’s hard.
Wow!
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