Fantasy is the most basic and longest-lived genre
22nd April 2017 | for Creatives | books, fantasy, reaching your audience, genre, Shannon Hale, William Shakespeare, Stephen Mitchell |
"Fantasy is the most basic and longest-lived genre. Shakespeare wrote fantasy. Gilgamesh was fantasy. The stories so important that they were passed down from mothers to daughters for millennia without being written down were fantasy. The advantage of fantasy is that a reader can insert themselves and their own issues into the story."
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