How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1

This episode is brought to you by Perhaps The Stars, the fourth and final novel in the Terra Ignota series, available now from (referrer links) Amazon , Barnes And Noble , Books-A-Million , Apple Books , and Indiebound . Anything you can call "writing" (science fiction, fantasy, screenwriting, comics, games) Max Gladstone does. He's also a fencer and martial artist. This episode explores connections between these two types of things. This interview ran long, so this is part one of two. Numerous topics covered include: the similarities shared by the crafts of writing and fencing; struggles when writing descriptions of physical spaces; why we don't see cluttered spaceships in science fiction movies; when to include potatoes in your medieval fantasy setting; designing the layout of museum exhibits, video game spaces, and Walt Disney World; and more! Max Gladstone website Substack newsletter Twitter

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How Writing Is Like Fencing, With Writer Max Gladstone - Part 1 is an episode from Ex Urbe Ad Astra by Ada Palmer.

This episode is 01:05:35 long.

This episode was published on Jan 3, 2022.

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