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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4787213" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, I would say neither, but I have a critique that I think is actually relevant to the discussion.You claim to be in part professional - so you know that any writing should be tailored to the audience and purpose, yes?  I note here that while your writing may have many technical merits, you seem to have failed to properly identify the purpose and audience for your work in this piece.  You are writing an essay for a discussion board.  While such pieces should be interestingly phrased, they also need to be concise.  You should be taking pains to make sure your audience gets your point fairly quickly and clearly.  Instead, you have laden it with poetic prose in a nigh-Moorcockian purple shade, such that your readers don't need to merely dig for the meaning, but need to outright excavate.  That is antithetical to the (assumed) purpose of posting it here - to generate discussion.  Consistently, when you post like this, we cannot discuss your point first, as we spend an age asking if we have, in fact, figured out what your point actually is! So, if you've failed to identify the needs for your own work, I suggest that for many pieces of modern fantasy, you've also misidentified their needs.A great deal of "fantasy" today is actually multi-genre, or sub-genre, or has other particular needs.  There's a great deal of romance-fantasy, chicklit-fantasy (sorry if that term offends - it is what my lady-friends call the stuff, and I don't have another word for it), humor-fantasy, and so on.  In order to serve their own particular needs none of these should have the "blood" you call for.  Similarly, there's a whole bunch of stuff that adults read that is actually originally intended for young adults, and "blood" of that strength is considered inappropriate for that audience.</blockquote>

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