Brandon Sanderson could be a moderator all on his own. His experience from Writing Excuses really shows.

"Oh, HI I'm Brandon Sanderson!"

14:48 - Hahahahaha - "This guy can do these incredible things - you can't just have him living in a little hovel..." But that's EXACTLY what Butcher has done with Harry Dresden, and it works magnificently.

I just love listening to David Farland. He has a soothing, calm voice and really thinks about the questions and his answers.

Jim butcher AND Brandon Sanderson on the same panel?! I wish I could have been there. But unfortunately I work right across from the convention center they're in, and couldn't. :(

The Jack Vance work they're referencing around 36 min is the "Dying Earth" series.

Thank you for uploading this.

I loved this video, especially since I own most of these authors books.

Thank you so much for uploading all those panels! Keep up the great work! :)

I don't have time or money to make it to these events, thanks so much for uploading these :)

Thank you so much for uploading these!!

Good grief, what a line up!!!

Thank You

Really interesting discussion I wish the sound was a bit louder

Audio isn’t loud enough :(

More thanks from over here.

Also Bigfoot = Trolls of old...

I have to disagree with David Farland on magical healing, in that I wouldn't make the blanket statement of "Don't do it." Granted, magical healing CAN take away dramatic tension, IF it's done like an RPG's healing. In my world, however, it's more like battlefield triage. It takes both the wounded person AND the medic out of combat during the healing. The medic needs the anatomical and magical knowledge, the adventurer's equivalent of an M.D., so there's not many who can do it properly. So really you'd only do it when the alternative is letting a party member die. So the fight's going so badly one of yours is in critical condition, AND ON TOP OF THAT your medic is out of combat to heal them, and can't defend themselves while they focus, AND ON TOP OF THAT the rest of your party is vulnerable without those two (or more). So instead of taking away from dramatic tension, the way I do magical healing in combat can actually be a SOURCE of dramatic tension. Plus, it's painful as heck, because the nerves are raw/super-sensitive, so even if the wounded person is awake, they ain't fighting during the procedure.

Tad Williams argument for less magic not more is important to good writing. Characters need to figure out things for themselves. Not with a magic spell.

@UdyKumra

4 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. If you have a lot of limitations, then characters will try to figure out how to use the magic to solve problems, and it'll STILL be hard, but also MORE interesting for the reader because it's magic. See: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.

Too many Classes now packing too many of the SAME spells, especially concerning healing magic...

Whoever recorded this... Please, next time stand up or get a tripod to get the camera/recording device above the level of the audience. That girl at center foreground is an almost intolerable distraction what with the constant turning of her head and constantly drinking her soda or whatever is in that garish cup.

@williamh.8537

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to tear my ears off listening to her crunch that ice...

33:30 - how annoying that that woman cam and sat right in front of the camera...

0:33 kind of said how she never finished introducing herself properly.

The audio in this is waaaaayyy too quiet, I can't hear crap at the gym

Who is the woman?

@dericksmith2603

5 жыл бұрын

Jody Lynn Nye

Okay. Move the camera, the crunching of the person eating chips was so distracting. Loved it otherwise!