I love creating the people who make up my world too and working out who can do what magically and who can't. Then I can create the rebels within those groups - in my case Eileen kicking out against the traditional fairy godmother role and being an all action fairy heroine. No dragon is safe from her (is her proud boast but Fresdian, another fairy godmother who studies wildlife in depth does not see this as an accolade at all, more a confession). I love getting my characters talking and rowing.
I love being able to start a world from scratch. I can work out the system of government and from there the haves and have nots (in my case in terms of magical abilities and also whether people can improve their status and talents or does the system get in the way?). It's the nearest I get to playing God. I love getting engrossed in the creation of my worlds (so I temporarily at least get to leave the cares of this world behind me). I also tend to work out how my world is divided up in terms of regions. Given I want the regions to vary, so my world is not all the same, I can bring in some history by, in my case, declaring one region close to being entirely barren thanks to previous magical wars destroying the land as nothing can stand having too much magic go through it.
I love creating the people who make up my world too and working out who can do what magically and who can't. Then I can create the rebels within those groups - in my case Eileen kicking out against the traditional fairy godmother role and being an all action fairy heroine. No dragon is safe from her (is her proud boast but Fresdian, another fairy godmother who studies wildlife in depth does not see this as an accolade at all, more a confession). I love getting my characters talking and rowing.
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AuthorI'm Allison Symes and write fairytales with bite, especially novels and short stories. Archives
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