anyone should be able to get caught up
12th July 2016 | for Creatives | characters, sci-fi, fantasy, writing, genre, Russell Galen |
"If the setting is a spaceship or a magical land then we'll call it genre fiction, but anyone should be able to get caught up in the lives of such characters."
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