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For Fantasy/Sci-Fiction Lovers: What Makes You Reada Book?
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RE: For Fantasy/Sci-Fiction Lovers: What Makes You Reada Book?
(January 9, 2017 at 3:09 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(January 9, 2017 at 2:37 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: If you consider "the force" to be a manifestation of PSI then it would be scifi. 

That's how I justified seeing Episode V.  Wink

What's important is reader experience, not genre purity.  The questions I ask when I write are What if? and Why not?

Yep, it's fun to fudge with reality, but only if it engages the reader, not as an exercise is writing alone.
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RE: For Fantasy/Sci-Fiction Lovers: What Makes You Reada Book? - by Gawdzilla Sama - January 9, 2017 at 4:21 pm

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