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Intentionally Blank

The Fantasy Quorum with Holly Black — Intentionally Blank Ep. 175

Intentionally Blank

Brandon Sanderson & Dan Wells

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews, Fiction

4.9567 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Holly Black convene as the Fantasy Quorum to answer the most difficult questions that modern fantasy writers face today. Read Holly Black's interview on The Cognitive Realm: https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/blogs/the-cognitive-realm/holly-black-how-to-write-addictive-stories Want to send me something to open? Dragonsteel Entertainment ATTN: Adam P.O Box 698 American Fork, UT 84003 Stay up to date by following my newsletter: https://brandonsanderson.us10.li...

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0:00.0

Hey, we have Holly Blackback again.

0:07.0

Yay!

0:08.0

And I figured last episode, I had a fantasy quorum some questions. I have so many questions

0:14.5

for the fantasy quorum, but I'm going to start asking us questions and see what we think.

0:20.0

Alright. So we're going to start with

0:21.9

one that's a little similar to last time. Is Beowulf fantasy? Is Beowulf fantasy? Is Beowulf

0:28.8

fantasy? What is the argument against Beowulf being fantasy? That the Beowulf poet, we don't

0:36.4

know who they were, thought that this was a historical account

0:39.8

if you think you're writing a historical account and you do not know that these fantastical things

0:46.8

don't exist and i'm specifically picking bailwolf instead of a religious text for that reason right

0:51.9

that you don't know you think grendel was a real actual threat.

0:57.6

Does that, is that a fantasy story or not?

1:00.5

I don't know if I agree with the premise that the writer thought it was true.

1:06.5

Okay.

1:07.9

But.

1:09.1

Let's assume that they did. Assume that they did. Assume that they did. Right. Okay. It... Let's assume that they did.

1:11.0

Assume that they did.

1:12.0

Assume that they did.

1:13.2

Right.

1:13.5

Okay.

1:14.0

It's a little, like we know so little about the bail wolf author, like that it's hard

1:19.5

to say either way, but we can assume, like, we know that like with like the Ely and the

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