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Bestselling writer of The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow books, and The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
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she's 14! I think it calms her nerves. also she really likes video tutorials, for anything, and chain mail has a lot of them
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I'll also be at the Melbourne Writers Festival in May mwf.com.au/program/lev-...
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I want to say that it did! But I can't honestly think of any
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I am a lifelong plotter who decided to take a wild shot at being a pantser for once. And now that's over.
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Sorry, that was a little bit of insider talk. A 'pantser' is a writer who improvises their book as they go along. As opposed to a 'plotter' who plans the whole thing out in advance first.
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p.s. interesting Hugo awards prediction market manifold.markets/DavidFWatson...
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good question. I agree that Dinadan is raising consent issues, at the very least, if that's what you're suggesting. Though he also knows that he can trust fairies to look after their own interests. I suspect the arrangement lasts long enough for him to make his getaway, but not longer
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It was already thoroughly iconic by the time I got to it. But I was proud to put it on the list. I read it when it came out and it changed my writing forever
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It's funny I've been messing around with new novel ideas and I just the other day remembered that piece of advice, which I am currently trying to take
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my dreams are never this cool ...
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I honestly don't know. I need a runaway-exciting idea, and I haven't hit on one yet
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I agitated at him about the knights' regional accents, and also made him pronounce "King Reitheoir," and he nailed it all
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it's reasonably well attested-to! I came across it in Jonathan Lyons' HOUSE OF WISDOM www.google.com.au/books/editio...
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no news yet. but the gears are turning.
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-- Literature's All-time Best, Worst and Most Awkward Parties, featuring Dracula, Macbeth, Jane Eyre, the Mad Hatter and lots and lots of alcohol www.secretlifeofbooks.org/podcast-1/ep...
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-- A Christmas Carol, which I would not have believed could be weird and fascinating, but here we are www.secretlifeofbooks.org/podcast-1/ep...
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-- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which includes riffs on opium, mouth-breathing, Iron Maiden and a really banging piece of freestyle metrical analysis www.secretlifeofbooks.org/podcast-1/ep...
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oh damn -- thank you for pointing this out -- I'm going to delete and repost
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-- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which includes riffs on opium, mouth-breathing, Iron Maiden and a really banging piece of freestyle metrical analysis www.secretlifeofbooks.org/podcast-1/ep...
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thanks man! So good to see FIGHT ME on there too!
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(I had to Google the Miami Heat all-time points leader.)
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"It was coming, and then it would have happened. Time was always stealing away bits of your future and replacing them with memories, and then the memories faded. Like trading real gold for fairy gold, and who thought that was a fair trade? But God must, or He wouldn’t have made time that way."
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!!! that is awesome. thank you, I never would have seen it!