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547. Ian Livingstone on Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

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How to Write a Fighting Fantasy Book

I have 400 numbers ready to allocate as I design on the fly so I have a basic story arch in mind and some protagonists and monsters in mind and then set off. There's a lot of back into and an awful much cross checking and it's still a nightmare thing to do but very enjoyable to finish, even more enjoyable to get feedback from the fansYeah we'll give people the titles. Wait where is it? Well Shadow of the Giants that was one port of peril. Yeah just those recent books what's it been like working on those? It was no different at all in terms of the way of writing other than to replace the pen and ink which I used to write long had with

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