#628: Greg Weisman

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I had the pleasure to have a carpool guest, Greg Weisman, the author of the upcoming War of the Spark novel, Ravnica. He and I talked all about what went into writing a story with over 100 named characters.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.
0:06.4	Well, guess what? And special treat to-day, guys. I have a special carpool guest. So say hello.
0:12.0	Hi. So, who are you? I'm Greg Weissman. I'm the author of Ravnik of War of the Spark.
0:19.5	Okay, so, uh,
0:21.2	Greg,
0:23.2	so today Greg's writing with me.
0:23.5	In fact,
0:24.5	he drove out to my house specifically to be on this podcast.
0:26.6	So this is some dedication to be on the podcast.
0:29.2	Um,
0:29.5	and we're going to talk all about the new novel because Greg wrote a new novel.
0:32.6	So,
0:32.9	um,
0:33.3	I did.
0:33.9	Let's start with us. Are you a magic player? I'm not.
0:37.9	I know that's a horrible thing to have to admit, but I, uh, I'm not a gamer at all.
0:45.1	Um, I wrote two World of Warcraft novels and, I never played that either.
0:49.8	So how, how did you get, like, how did you end up writing this?
0:52.9	Well, how did that happen?
0:54.5	It's a little bit roundabout, but, uh, Elizabeth Schae get, like, how did you end up writing this? Well, how did that happen? It's a little bit roundabout, but Elizabeth Schaefer was my editor on Warcraft originally,
1:03.8	and then partway through that project, she moved to Delray Books.
1:09.4	And when Delray was looking for an author for this, she recommended me for the gig.
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