71. The Fellowship of the Ring (w/ Bennett Eckert and Rebecca Kuang)
Cows in the field
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The Importance of Trust in Fantasy
"I'm thinking about how fantasy writers are trained today. And this is related to your thought on you know the internal world's building," he said. "The common wisdom now is you have to like think hardly enough about your world so that the reader trusts you to believe in it." He continued: "This is where a lot of contemporary fantasy novels fail ... The magical rules don't make sense but they're very obvious world building reasons why things happen".
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