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The Titans of Fantasy in Conversation panel at New York Comic-Con 2022 on Saturday gathered three of the highest names in fantasy, drawing an enormous crowd of followers of the genre. Moderated by Shawn Speakman, Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive), Diana Gabaldon (Outlander), and Terry Brooks (The Shannara Chronicles) mentioned their respective worlds and the way they created the universes which have made them, nicely, Titans of Fantasy.
Listening to every writer converse clearly confirmed one factor: there isn’t a proper or improper solution to create a world that can captivate an viewers and maintain them invested in the characters and mythology you’ve designed. Sanderson, Gabaldon, and Brooks all have very completely different backgrounds and experiences that led them to their present legendary sequence and successes.
Brooks, the elder statesman on the stage (and persistently bringing the humorous all through the complete hour), stated:
“I was a kid of the science fiction age, grew up reading science fiction because that’s what there was to read. There wasn’t much in the way of fantasy. I never read any fantasy till I read Tolkien, as a matter of fact, except for the Emerald City of Oz and a few of those kinds of stories. But the biggest impression on me was actually literature. I read everything in science fiction in two years because that’s what there was to read back then, and I got right through it. I think that everything you read impacts you. I think it’s very difficult to say that only one sort of thing makes you the writer that you are… So for me, the answer to this question would really be practically everything I’ve read that I’ve loved particularly has had a huge impact on me. The Black Stallion? Yes. Science fiction stories, yes, even the Hardy Boys and some other strange things along the way have made a difference in where I’ve gone and what I’ve ended up doing.”
And the place Gabaldon needed to learn each e-book in her native library at a really younger age, it took an attentive eighth-grade instructor to show non-reader Sanderson right into a lover of books, significantly fantasy and issues with dragons on the covers. This ultimately paved the way in which for Sanderson to learn none aside from The Shannara Chronicles.
Each author shared how they method the works that made them well-known. Where Sanderson will plot out years in advance, Gabaldon revealed she by no means works with outlines and lets the narrative circulation organically. Speakman famous that the Outlander scribe additionally predominantly stayed in that very same universe for the majority of her profession whereas the opposite two panelists created a number of worlds. No matter their method or what number of mythologies they’ve created, one factor was clear. If you wish to write, it’s a must to do it and do it once more after which hearken to “no thanks” and “revise this” quite a bit earlier than you lastly hit that candy spot that retains the followers wanting extra.
Sanderson famous that he had heard that it takes at the least 5 books earlier than you write the great one, sharing he made 5 novels in completely different genres previous to his long-awaited “book number six. I’m like, well, this is where the pressure is on right now. I’ve got to write something that’s good, and so I had to kind of settle down and pick what I really wanted to do, which turned out to be epic fantasy. And the real challenge was kind of now feeling the pressure. I’ve got to be at a professional caliber if I want to sell something.”
Gabaldon famous, “It made you a better writer. And also, you need to feel a sense of accomplishment. This is the only feedback your work gives you before you get published, to see the words mount up and think, I did that…all the writing counts; it doesn’t matter what kind it is.”
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