One of the things I love muchly about the first season of the new Doctor Who is that Rose's family and friends continue to matter. It's great in a horrible way -- she's just awful to them, if you think about it, popping in and out unexpectedly, disrupting their lives every time, so they can't have her and can't let go of her -- but it leavens the "let's go have an adventure!" attitude with some interesting context and consequences.
But I think your wording betrays some of the assumptions our genre could use to question more: you can't go haring off on a quest. So the answer is to write more non-questy fantasy. Write legends, not fairy tales -- in Luthi's analysis, fairy tales take place far away, while legends take place nearby.
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Date: 2007-11-08 05:56 am (UTC)But I think your wording betrays some of the assumptions our genre could use to question more: you can't go haring off on a quest. So the answer is to write more non-questy fantasy. Write legends, not fairy tales -- in Luthi's analysis, fairy tales take place far away, while legends take place nearby.