Fantasy World Building — Thanks to Star Wars and Legend.
Star Wars. My first taste of being transported into another world. I owned everything related to those first three movies. The books, the action figures, I think I even had the soundtrack. I was utterly mesmerized by that world. I owe a lot of my writing desire and curiosity to George Lucas. But I was pretty young when Star Wars hit the screen. Too young probably to start creating worlds with anything other than my vivid imagination. I hadn’t started writing stories at that point.
English: Opening logo to the Star Wars films (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Until the movie Legend came out. And then it was all she wrote. I was hooked. That movie, now somewhat of a cult phenomenon, changed the way I viewed the world (I was young, give me a break), and it triggered in me the desire to not only start reading fantasy and sci-fi like a fiend, but to start writing it.
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What inspired you to walk the writing path?
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Same for me. The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth and much later The Storyteller series were also just as important for my imagination and passion for writing.
May 30, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Jim Henson fan? Me too. And I forgot about Labyrinth…! Great movie. Great music.
May 30, 2012 at 8:15 pm
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