Niko LaamanenFounder, Publisher at Konsensus Network

Escaping Reality Writing Dystopian Worlds and Dragons

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker reflects on how contemporary writers increasingly turn to dystopian and fantastical storytelling—particularly involving dragons—as a form of escapism from the pressures of real-world platforms like Twitter/X. While acknowledging the adage that writers write what they know, the speaker notes the paradox of writing about mythical creatures they have never encountered, using these narratives to explore 'what‑if' scenarios and to contemplate potential solutions to real societal problems. The talk positions fantasy writing as both a refuge and a laboratory for imagining ways to address real-world issues.

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And I think, and one of the things I'd like for us to talk about, because we have this kind of dystopian element to the collection, and what I'm seeing through even things like Twitter or X as it's called now, you've got more and more people kind of escaping the real world into writing about, you know, they say writers write what they know, and I think But we're writing about dragons. I don't know any dragons. And we can kind of escape the real world and we can play out what-if scenarios and we can actually try to think, how do we fix stuff?

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