Saturday – Panel Room 1 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Putting a little real history into your story can be cool. But you can’t make every killer Jack the Ripper and every wise person Mark Twain. How do you get beyond that and keep it all interesting. Eric T. Knight, J.L. Doty, Jessica Feinberg
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Eric T. Knight: The author grew up on a working cattle ranch in the desert thirty miles from Wickenburg, Arizona, which at that time was exactly the middle of nowhere. Work, cactus and heat were plentiful, forms of recreation were not. The TV got two channels when it wanted to, and only in the evening after someone hand cranked the balky diesel generator to life. All of which meant that his primary form of escape was reading.
At 18 he escaped to Tucson where he attended the University of Arizona. A number of fruitless attempts at productive majors followed, none of which stuck. Discovering he liked writing, the author tried journalism two separate times, but had to drop it when he realized that he had no intention of conducting interviews with actual people but preferred simply making them up.
Keeping it Real: How to Make Fantasy Worlds Feel Realistic
Saturday – Panel Room 1 11:00 am 12:00 pm Just because it’s a world of total make believe doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make sense, and have internal logic. So how do you have elves and magic wands and chosen ones and still make it feel like a trip to the mall? Bob Nelson, Bruce Davis,… Continue reading Keeping it Real: How to Make Fantasy Worlds Feel Realistic