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“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
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Posted in Writing, tagged artists, books, creativity, dark chocolate, Fiction, finishing, gaming, genre fiction, Imagination Olympics, interviews, Lightspeed, Patrick Rothfuss, podcast, sff, speculative fiction, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Writers, writing, writing process on March 10, 2015| 1 Comment »
Back in the fall, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviewed Patrick Rothfuss about his new book, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. In it, he touches on the details of his writing process, the likelihood that he revises “more than anyone else in the genre,” why his prose sounds like “dark chocolate,” role-playing games and many other topics.
… because we have the ability to have fantastic plots and armies clashing and magic and dragons, it’s easy to leave out other things and one of the hardest ones to do is language.
If you’re interested in the process of fiction, in Pat’s writing, or in why he thinks you might not want to buy his new book, check out the full transcript now posted by the good folks over at Lightspeed.
* As an added bonus, the interviewer describes fantasy and science fiction as “the imagination Olympics.” So true!
J.R. Johnson 
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