ISBW #117 – Back to Basics / Scott Sigler Interview
Mur Lafferty | 2009/05/12 | 4 comments
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- 00:07: ISBW #117
- 00:37: GoTo Meeting Message
- 01:43: Crossed the 20K word mark on War
- 03:03: Promo: JC Hutchins’ Personal Effects: Sword of Blood
- 06:00: Download archives of ISBW at Murverse
- 08:30: Mur’s Four Basic Rules of Writing
- 17:34: Promo: Nina Kimberly the Merciless
- 19:22: Interview with Scott Sigler, author of The Rookie
- 42:40: Promo: Scott Sigler’s The Rookie
- 44:47: Feedback, or lack thereof
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Sigler is genius.
Thanks for this, Mur. Your advice speaks volumes. The point that hit home the most was that it’s OK to suck.
Scott gives good interview once again. Not sure I could follow his book though, if it features that strange incomprehensible game you guys across the water mistakenly call ‘football’.
I love the new format. Keep up the great work!
Response to MikeA:
Mike, take a moment. As an English transplant, I agree with you about American football. It’s a stupid name for a stupid game. In fact, I came at The Rookie with a triple disadvantage- Scott describes it as Star Wars meets The Godfather meets Any Given Sunday, and I don’t like any of them. But I liked his previous works, so I gave it a shot.
I’m very glad I did. The rules and strategy of the game are nearly irrelevant. The story is much more about the characters than the game. Scott does a particularly brilliant job of taking each species’ stereotypes, and drawing individuals out of them. I had hesitated, but I’m glad I made the leap and read The Rookie.
(He almost lost me with Nocturnal though. He wandered much too far from hard science with that one, IMO.)