Episode 161: Lessons In Fantasy Worldbuilding From Willow

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In this week's episode, we take a look at what fantasy writers can learn about worldbuilding from the Willow streaming series. I also discuss how I wrote 10,000 words in a single day for the first time since January 2022. TRANSCRIPT: 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 161 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is July the 21st, 2023, and today we're going to discuss some lessons in fantasy worldbuilding from the recent Willow streaming series on Disney Plus. Before we get into all of that, let's have some updates on my current writing projects. I am almost halfway through the rough draft of Dragon Skull: Crown of the Gods, and in fact, after I finished recording this, I'm going to work on it a bit more and then I will be over halfway through the rough draft of Dragon Skull: Crown of the Gods. If all goes well, I'm hoping to have that out towards the end of August sometime. That is, if you'll recall from previous episodes, part of my Summer of Finishing Things. Dragon Skull: Crown of the Gods is the final book in the Dragonskull series, and I'm going to follow it up with a Silent order: Pulse Hand, which will be the…excuse me, the final book in the Silent Order science fiction series. In other news recording is underway for Dragon Skull: Curse of the Orcs. I think I mentioned that in previous episodes, it is being narrated by Brad Wills and if all goes well, it'll be out towards the end of August or sometime in September. I'm also very pleased to report that on Wednesday, July 19th, I wrote 10,000 words of Dragon Skull: Crown of the Gods in a single day. That is my first 10,000 word day of 2023, and in fact the last time I wrote 10,000 words on a single day was back in January 11th, 2022 when I was working on Cloak of Iron, and since then in the Nadia series I've written Cloak of Iron, wrote Cloak of Shards, Cloak of Spheres, Cloak of Masks, and Cloak of Dragonfire. So it's been a while since I wrote a 10,000 word day. If I remember right, I had eight 10,000 days in 2021 and then I had twenty-two 10,000 words days back in 2020. But that was during peak COVID when there was nothing else to do. And I did write the entire Wraithshard series that year. Here the tricky thing about 10,000 word days is that 1: I can't have anything else major I need to do that day. And 2: everything has to go exactly right during the day. Like, if I have a phone call to make or home maintenance to do or a podcast to record, or something unexpected comes up unexpectedly, that means it's not going to be a 10,000 word day. So for the first time since January 2022, both conditions one and two aligned on the same day and I had a 10,000 word day. Hopefully I'll have at least one more in 2023, but we'll see how the rest of this year goes. 00:02:33: Reader Questions/Comments Before we get to our main topic this week, we have a couple of questions from readers. Charles writes in to ask about the Dragonskull series: How long have most of the Dragonskull books been? Most of the Dragonskull books have been between 80 and 90,000 words, with like around 83,000, 84,000 words being the sweet spot, and I think Dragon Skull: Crown of the Gods will end up somewhere in that neighborhood as well. So I think that's a good length for a book. I think overall the best length for a novel is between 80,000 to 100,000 words, with some exceptions of course, because that way the reader gets an entire story and hopefully doesn't feel cheated, and hopefully that is not a strain on the sanity of the author because I found if you're writing a long book, once it gets over 100,000 words, it gets harder and harder to write. Our next question is from Juana, who says: Come on, write the next Cloak book. Enough with the other series, please. Marshall Worldburner deserves some actions. Though I suppose that is less of a question and more of a declaration. But in answer to the implied question there, once I'm done with my Summer of Finishing Things and the Dragonskull and Silent Order series are complete, the next thing I am going to write is a Caina book which I believe will be entitled Ghost in the Serpent. And then after that I will write a Cloak of Embers, the final…no, excuse me, not final (definitely not final!), but the next Nadia book in the sequence. So before the end of the year, we will have some more Nadia, if all goes well. 00:04:04: Main Topic: Fantasy Wordbuilding Lessons from Willow on Disney Plus Well, now let's move on to our main topic for this week's episode: fantasy worldbuilding lessons, specifically fantasy worldbuilding lessons derived from the Willow streaming series that came out on Disney Plus towards the end of the end of November 2022 last year. I tried watching it, and I got so annoyed with it that I gave up after the first episode. I couldn't quite articulate my annoyance at first, so I thought about it and then realized it connected with one of my favorite topics: ...

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