I Have Stories To Tell! Episode IWSG the 5th

IWSG

Girl howdy and is Howdy Doody alive and well living in the suburbs, or is he just chillin' on an astral plane of know return, and welcome to the literary world of G.B. Miller, where he has decided, yet again, to participate in the monthly blog hop that is IWSG, as well as write the longest run-on sentence in his blogging life, which recently celebrated its 11th year back on May 24th.

Phew.

Anywho, as you all know, the first Wednesday of the month is when we, as writers etc., commiserate about our writing or something connected, however tenuously, to our writing.

For today's lament, since I really don't have anything personal to squawk about yet, I thought I would take a crack at the question of the month, which is:

Of all the genres you read and write, which is your favorite to write in and why?

I enjoy writing fantasy, simply because it's one of the few genres that allows you to get away with just about anything, no matter how implausible it may be.

To elaborate, my current book series "The Friendship Trilogy" features a mixed couple: human (male) and half-human/half animal (female), or what I like to call a "hybrid". In addition to the usual animal features that can crop up from time to time {a tail, whiskers, ears, claws, etc}, she also has two sisters who are symbionts and who also control two different parts of her body.

This particular dynamic allows me to write the character as someone whose race is now somewhat commonplace, thus allowing me to treat her as a 100% normal individual. Additionally, I have also introduced the concept of telepathy into the story as well.

Basically, this genre allows me to bend reality almost to the point of implausibility, thus allowing me to show how an unusual person can be accepted amongst the regular peoples that populate the here and now.

And that, my friends, is what my comfort zone for writing is.

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