savagetbone1225

Before I started ritually watching and reading through George R.R. Martin interviews, I saw one that I have not been able to find since in which he says that fantasy writers ought not to think that they need to write stories in which the fate of the world is always in the balance. He explained that he does have "fate of the world" stories in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, but that the genre ought to invite writers to write about personal stories instead, much like other genres have invited their writers to do for some time now. I think it is important to be able to tell a personal story, regardless of whether or not the fate of the world hangs in the balance.