Diana Wynne Jones

When Fantasy is Self-Indulgent

Dec 22, 2013

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Note: This should’ve gone up Friday. In fact, it would’ve gone up Friday – was all ready to go up Friday – when my computer experienced internet connectivity issues. So, you get to enjoy it today instead! A major part of writing fantasy is world-building – everyone agrees about that. What’s the point of setting…

Diana Wynne Jones, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien – What a Combination!

Dec 7, 2011

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harmamae

in Quotables

“When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some…

A Thought From Diana Wynne Jones – To Plan Or Not To Plan (Your Novel)

Nov 2, 2011

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harmamae

in On Writing, Quotables

“Another common question which naturally follows on from here is Do you plan your book out before you start it? and my answer is always unequivocally, No that kills it dead. This always shocks teachers, who are accustomed to have told their pupils that you can’t write that way. But I am afraid I do,…

Do You Need to be Younger than 40 to Write Great Novels?

Oct 29, 2011

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harmamae

in Howl’s Moving Castle, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings, On Writing, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The other day, Little Brown Mushroom Blog linked to an article in the New York Times – an article which claims that most great novels are written by authors under the age of forty. The Little Brown Mushroom Blog was interested in this because they wanted to know if the same was true for photographers.…

Tag: Diana Wynne Jones

When Fantasy is Self-Indulgent

Diana Wynne Jones, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien – What a Combination!

A Thought From Diana Wynne Jones – To Plan Or Not To Plan (Your Novel)

Do You Need to be Younger than 40 to Write Great Novels?