What do you find most difficult about writing fantasy?

Too many subplots is mine. I was scared I wouldn't be able to resolve them all towards the end of my last project. I had to let a few scenes die.

How about you?

Deciding what I can get away with without it sounding cheesy.
And deciding how many 'bad guys' I can be merciful too without messing up the story.
And those who I do have to "off", how to do so in a none gruesome way since it's for kids...

Technical research, or perhaps the assurance of accuracy. Where there be research, there be trouble. The other one is sharing a particular wonder and experience within the crafted reading experience.

Lynae Fisher said:

Deciding what I can get away with without it sounding cheesy.
And deciding how many 'bad guys' I can be merciful too without messing up the story.
And those who I do have to "off", how to do so in a none gruesome way since it's for kids...

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I know. I want all my villains to repent, but sadly a lot of em don't. (Actually, I don't think any of them do as far as I can remember right now. )

Leithia Juarch said:

Technical research, or perhaps the assurance of accuracy. Where there be research, there be trouble. The other one is sharing a particular wonder and experience within the crafted reading experience.

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My imagination is usually two steps ahead of my research. Have to go back and fix the implausible.

E.A.Cornell said:

Too many subplots is mine. I was scared I wouldn't be able to resolve them all towards the end of my last project. I had to let a few scenes die.

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I was going to say, oh, no trouble at all, but then i remembered there is trouble, particularly when there is a word count limit or there's the trouble of remembering that these plots within the plot perhaps are technically subplots. I am both an underwriter and overwriter, which sometimes spells disaster. That said, what kind of subplot trouble variation was it?

E.A.Cornell said:

My imagination is usually two steps ahead of my research. Have to go back and fix the implausible.

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Imagination is such fun until you realize the troubles it has wrought. I usually have the broad strokes down, it's the devious details. Sometimes, though, i get a wrench thrown in and have to sigh.

Lynae Fisher said:

Deciding what I can get away with without it sounding cheesy.
And deciding how many 'bad guys' I can be merciful too without messing up the story.
And those who I do have to "off", how to do so in a none gruesome way since it's for kids...

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Yeah, the problem of cheese. For the offing, the way the Bible does it is an example. And then there is also the 'and then he died' or something simple like so.

E.A.Cornell said:

I know. I want all my villains to repent, but sadly a lot of em don't. (Actually, I don't think any of them do as far as I can remember right now. )

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At least you two have proper bad guys. I recently came to the realization i am apparently having trouble with proper bad guys. Yes, i have monsters and bad guys, but none of them are the kind of bad guys i just dislike myself. Depending on the story, i can follow the character to his end without having trouble, be it repentance or death or something else, often because its logical exercises, but other times not so much.

I usually make up my own worlds were I don't need cultural stuff since it's whatever I say it is. But I still have to make it realistic for that world...

For bad guys, I kind of have two kinds. The ones that are the super villians that essentially sold their souls, so to speak; and the just jerks that no one likes. The first often have to be offed in one way or another. The second kind might repent or otherwise change. Or keep being annoying...

Lynae Fisher said:

I usually make up my own worlds were I don't need cultural stuff since it's whatever I say it is. But I still have to make it realistic for that world...

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Yes, i never realized how relaxing those could be until i buried myself in history. Sometimes those can be difficult if i'm trying for particular details, but the gloss could be convenient.

Lynae Fisher said:

For bad guys, I kind of have two kinds. The ones that are the super villians that essentially sold their souls, so to speak; and the just jerks that no one likes. The first often have to be offed in one way or another. The second kind might repent or otherwise change. Or keep being annoying...

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I'm trying to think over here which characters i have that are those two kinds. It must be somewhere in there; i had them before, but now i have several that are close, yet not quite there, at least not that i can think of at the moment. Oh, well, i'm sure they'll come up once i stop thinking for it.