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Video: Terry With Priest, Rothfuss, and Sanderson
Last night, Terry partook in The Story Board, this episode a video discussion with fellow fantasy writers Cherie Priest, Patrick Rothfuss, and Brandon Sanderson. They talked primarily about story construction, form and function, and the fantasy genre as a whole. The Story Board airs on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 8pm PDT. Pat…
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BrooksBlog: Writing and Its Sickness
Spent the last seven days being sick. The kind where you hurt all over, nothing tastes good, sleep is impossible because either you cannot get comfortable or you are coughing a lung out. Liquids help, but you can’t sleep or rest with a straw in your mouth. So you start thinking about stuff, and I…
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BrooksBlog: Weather Working
Woke this morning early, as always, and trudged down to the writing room to begin work. Outside it was gray and raining, a day that seems more like Fall or Winter than Summer. Funny thing is, I don’t mind days like this. They don’t depress me or make me irritable. “Rainy Days & Mondays Don’t…
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BrooksBlog: Water & Writing
How does water affect you? As a writer, I find – for reasons I don’t entirely understand – that it has a very positive creative effect on me. I get many of my best ideas and come up with solutions to some of my most troublesome problems when I am in the shower. It must…
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BrooksBlog: 50 Year Reunion
Just finished hosting the yearly get-together of my small group of close High School friends on the Oregon Coast. There were eight of us at first, but we lost one along the way. Literally. He disappeared and has never resurfaced. The remaining seven have been reuniting each summer since the early nineties after we all…
