The Learning Curve in Fantasy

I think Saladin said, well, at the beginning where when we're writing we're trying to blend the familiar and the strange. How much learning curve do you want? How much does a reader have to get into when it's starting? But I think you can mitigate these things in a lot of ways. You can ease the reader in without throwing as many new terms at them. Or by having a character in a familiar situation. If it's a father speaking to his son about growing up, then that's a familiar setting. You can start somewhere familiar. Language is actually an important thing with this. And I think that there's a fetishization of weird language in a lots of