Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.
I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it has a cloven hoof. He is the sum of all creatures: the ones that swim, the ones that soar, the ones that leap, the ones that maze the earth with burrows.
What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?
I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory ''managed relationships''. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.
Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.