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A Yearning for the Epic: Belarrin’s Path

  • Post published:December 4, 2020
  • Post category:On Fantasy/On Isfalinis/On Writing

**********WARNING! This article discusses core plot and theme ideas, including major spoilers of what occurs in the climax of the story.  I strongly encourage that you only continue reading this if…

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A Yearning for the Epic II: The Last Stand

  • Post published:November 12, 2020
  • Post category:On Fantasy

Last article, I began the discussion of how we all yearn for the epic and, even if our lives are more mundane than our childhood dreams, the paths we choose…

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A Yearning for the Epic

  • Post published:October 23, 2020
  • Post category:On Fantasy

I think there is a part in all of us that yearns for the epic.  It begins with the unfettered dreams of childhood with aspirations to be an astronaut, a…

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