Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!