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Worldbuilding 101 Creating a Setting, Rothfuss, Wolfe, Steele and Ozment

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This is from the Worldbuilding 101 panel at MadCon in 2010. Panelists included Patrick Rothfuss, Gene Wolfe, Allen Steele and Nicholas Ozment Notes compiled by Jenna Reynolds (These are not meant to be direct quotes.) When you are building a world (worldbuilding) for your stories, what is your process? What do you start with? Gene Wolfe: I start … [Read more…]

The Art of the Short Story, a MadCon Panel Report

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On this panel were Gene Wolfe (multi-published award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy), Allen Steele (multi-published award-winning science fiction author), John Krewson (writer for The Onion and short story author), Jim Frenkel (editor at Tor, missing from picture), and Mark Tiedemann (multi-published short story writer and novelist). Combined and individually these men have impressive … [Read more…]