A mythical world is anything one wishes it to be; there is no time, it doesn’t conform to history, there is no limit, and if there are limitations, it’s one’s imagination. A fantasy world cannot be defined because stories are not about dogma; they are about a world that is very real. Worlds are created from imagination; imagining planets have no rules. They are what the creator wishes them to be. Maybe there have been a lot of books and movies on the fantasy that had come before, but a creator of a mythical world is creating and speaking out with one’s voice, a voice that makes a world different because they are different. Courage is needed to speak with one’s authentic representative and never conform to fashion because that is being true to oneself. There might be fear, but there is always writing and drawing with a personal voice. A mythical world is something we create, seeing something that we’ve never seen before. Imagination without barriers of fashion that goes anywhere. This is a way of exploring everything to climb each plateau of creation, to go anywhere with the formation of words. It’s a way to dream, not be afraid, and express creativity through words. As the result of a mythical world with terms, it’s good to experiment with what could happen in the story, the culture, lifestyles, and people. This means to create people never seen in other fantasy stories, creatures that are different and not found in ancient stories; the idea is to invent everything.
A mythical world is a place of escape to go to when the world of reality has too much fear a site one wishes to be. Think of buildings made or shaped like a spheroid, commonly called egg-shaped, partially structured underground and on the surface where such a city resides in the forests, a city of forests. These people are not part of a European, Asian, African, or Native American world; they are of their world. The Senetha are still being written about even when a book has been published about them, and I’m still searching them out. It’s a growing culture. Creating something that is made up requires time to develop a search, then write about it.
It seemed that the mythical world was free; anything could be created, there were no limitations, and a world where one’s style could be stamped, which is nothing like the world we live in. There is a basis for reality in a fantasy world; the interaction between people and situations is essential to the human world. As people, we face all kinds of problems in our journey through life, creating real people.
Silence the critics within, other people’s opinions, what had been created before, the limitations of contemporary society and what the creator might think, and what others might say about the work the creator has produced. A mythical world is doing whatever is in one’s heart and developing an individual sincere, creative voice.
There is no need for anything tangible in a mythical world; people can write their names in the air with a pen, a body of water could be a home, and people, animals, and beings that don’t exist, never existed in other stories could be created and given any personality.
The mythical world is like a dream, and individual creators craft it uniquely. There are the ancient legends of elves and fairies; it could be more than this because the only limitation is the imagination. Anything is possible in a story. Stories are about invention, going everywhere, reaching beyond ourselves, being anywhere, to walk beyond social limitations.
Robert J. Matsunaga
