The advantage of using fantasy is that it gives me another way of going within and exploring. The magic comes from within them, and they use it to transform their world. Fiction is a metaphor for life. People have been doing it since the dawn of time, trying to create sense out of random events. Fiction has always used characters to explain what the world is all about.
Fiction gives structure to our lives.
It gives meaning, it gives a way of collecting all the little bits and pieces, the things that we give significance. We gather those together, and we create a story we can live with - something that again requires faith and hope. It gives us hope that there is a meaning, a purpose to what we ve done. Most people need to believe there s a purpose in life, some reason for them to be here, that they re performing some important function as a part of a greater whole, and they re not insignificant. All rights reserved.