Fantasy Writers, unite!

Saw this in Dusky's blog... had to post it. XD

How much does your fantasy story follow this?

http://www.rinkworks.com/fnovel/

Hahahah! sveet. I actually did rather well, only answered 'Yes' 3 times.

I didn't have to say yes to anything *Whoot!* Tis true about many fantasy stories though, I guess it comes back to the 'there's only 7 stories in the world and everything else is based on them' point someone made to me long ago. I can't remember who.

Now if there was something about anthromorporphism I would fail miserably.
Everything's better when things that don't talk do.

Only 3 of them I answered as Yes and one was sort of in between and the rest are NO!!!

Ahahaa. They had a link to this in the Nanowrimo forums. (This is why you must all join Nanowrimo! *cough*)

And, umm, I answered "no" to everything. I obviously rule.

lol this is awesome I answered yes 4 times Im good lol! COnsidering the fact that ive red 3 fantasy books so far, the rest is internet trivia and RPs

I answered yes to only three of them and not exactly to one of them. This test really is a bit unfair for fantasy writing, seeing as it's geared towards typical high fantasy with a main character who is male. Mine is far from high fantasy and the main character is a girl.

Rei >> It is geared towards high fantasy — but then again, high fantasy is the subgenre most teeming with clichés. The point of the exam isn't so much a definitive answer to Is Your Novel Amazing as it is Is Your Novel a Clichéd Rip-Off of Tolkien. À la the Evil Overlord List, it pokes fun at a lot of silly things that are done in the genre.

And, of course, it's good for a laugh.

smaur -

I obviously rule.

- Didn't we go over this already.

Caligula's Launderette wrote:smaur -

I obviously rule.

- Didn't we go over this already.

We did?

... wait, so do I rule?

*glee*

But the topic title is "Fantasy Writers Unite" not "High Fantasy Writers Unite"

meh.

Fantasy is a hard genre to get a completely unique story for. Its all in the characters/telling of the story, not the uniqueness of the story itself.

Not necessarily. The only thing that is needed for it to fit into the genre is the element of the impossible.

So... all trilogies should be abandoned? That seems a bit harsh. But still funny. I answered three, because 1. I have elves in my book (but no other popular Fantasy races, and they are not the withdrawn, uber-magical, etc. sorts of elves as in other books.), 2. The main bad guy has an apostrophe in his last name (does that even count? Besides, Dono named him lol), and 3. The characters are transported from Earth to a highly magical world. In my own defense, I'm trying to make Boundless almost as much Sci-Fi as it is Fantasy, with explanations for everything, although many of them are explained by magic rather than science.

I'm sure if I had written a lot of Boundless I would have answered more yes, but now that I've read this, I'm going to change things around a lot. The three yesses will probably stay, but most of the other questions on the list are things I will definitely avoid. Heck, I'll probably even change the elves' names--there's really no reason that they'd be known as elves in the first place in my book.

Do you think you know how feudalism worked but really don't?

^ Well, if I got any then it'd be this one, 'cause I do have a feud, and technically I probably don't know exactly how a feud would work, so I'm partly improvising here. I just try and imagine how it should work, and how a certain character would feel if [insert item here] happened, which could possibly spark conflict etc. etc.

That is the only one I got though, and I'll try to make sure I don't do any of the others either... I think I've done pretty good so far..