
Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan
Writing Excuses
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How to Be a God
I don't want them to have goals in the same way that a person has a goal, necessarily. It's more... I mean, they should be forces of nature,. That they are kind of the distillation of a particular impulse. The sword books by Fred Sabrehagen have this whole pantheon of gods who do have very specific wants and desires. They're not really divine. You know, that kind of human emotion and human behavior lessens them, and they eventually just don't disappear.
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