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WoJ transcription help needed + mention new WoJ's here
jeno:
Hey Serack, did you ever get this interview? http://www.wizardsharry.com/dresden5.html
Crawker:
--- Quote from: Serack on August 26, 2011, 05:22:16 PM ---np, you don't have to quote the whole thing, just link to the post.
Actually, more than np, thanks for going through the additional effort of checking behind me and pointing out the ones that I missed when I last updated the list.
*goes and checks to make sure there weren't any other crawker transcripts he missed*
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I think that was it, but I'll do some more this weekend.
And you can link to certain posts? How? Or did you just mean the page its on?
Serack:
--- Quote from: jeno on August 26, 2011, 08:29:45 PM ---Hey Serack, did you ever get this interview? http://www.wizardsharry.com/dresden5.html
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That's Jim's sister's website, it's the first link in my interview list grouped by year (the current iteration of which is here)
I can't take credit for finding it though, Tiracakes had it in her older version of the interview link list. I actually got to meet her at the DC signing :)
AcornArmy:
It's been a while with no updates on the DC Q&A, so I did most of it today. I haven't transcribed the answer to every question, but the ones I haven't transcribed were about things other than the plot of Jim's books. In those places, I've written down the questions and the approximate time at which they occur, on which video segment. Eventually, I'll go back and transcribe those, too, unless someone else has a burning desire to do so. *looks around hopefully* These questions have a "...." above and below them, to separate them from the others.
I've done my best to transcribe every answer word for word, paraphrasing only when I really needed to in order to make the answer intelligible, because sometimes he gets interrupted by the audience. When I'm paraphrasing, I enclose the statements with brackets: [ ].
Q&A with Jim Butcher at a Barnes & Noble in Washington, D.C. August 1, 2011 - Part 1
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKr8UERpto
Q: Does Ivy know everything Bob knows?
A: Man, talk about an obscure question. Probably the vast majority of it, yeah, although Ivy's more oriented toward things that are happening on Earth, and Bob has sources all over. [messing with the microphone] So, I would say it's more an issue of, they have different fields of information available to them. They don't, like, have a comparable database.
Q: So Ivy doesn't get what Bob gets as soon as Bob gets it?
A: No.
Q: What is the publishing goal for Cold Days?
A: I don't know. It's due next June, I would anticipate it would be around this time. I've got the first sentence done, though, and that's the hard part. Now I've just got like 150,000 more words to go.
Q: Have we seen the last of Lasciel?
A: No, her story's not over. Actually, she's mentioned in Ghost Story, although not by name.
Q: What's with the hat on all the covers of the books?
A: The art department at Penguin thought that was the perfect visual shorthand for wizard detective. 'Cause he's got the wizard stick and the detective hat. So that's why they've done it.
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What's a typical day of writing for me? ~3:01, Part 1
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How come Marsters isn't doing the voice acting on the audio of GS? ~3:50, Part 1
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How much magical theory do you read? ~4:50, Part 1
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Q: What happened to Toot-toot? Is he getting pizza?
A: I only get to do this to the faces of the readers every so often: [sing-song]I'm not gonna tell you![/sing-song] 'Cause it's way more fun to read in the book.
Q: --he gets pizza, though, right?
A: --maybe, maybe not. You don't know yet. But the next book is going to be much concerned with faeries, so definitely Toot-toot is going to be participating.
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Do I play the Dresden Files RPG?
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Q: Who's first on Mab's hit list?
A: That'll be another "I'm not gonna tell you," because we'll find out in Chapter One of the next book. As soon as I write it.
Q: How close is your personality to Harry's personality?
A: Harry is the guy I would like to think I would be if someone handed me his kind of power-- but I think I would really end up one of those giggling villains. Actually, we're not terribly similar. We share a taste in T-shirts and Burger King, that's about it.
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Q: Am I planning on writing any more material in the near future for the Dresden Files RPG? ~8:01, Part 1
A: Maybe, I have no objection to writing more material-- [but time constraints make it seem unlikely for the near future.]
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Q: You've established in the books that Morgan's sword is the one used for executions in the books. Does it predate Luccio?
A: No. Morgan's sword was used because Morgan was the guy who would do it and not have nightmares afterwards. Or, you know actually, point of fact, he probably did have nightmares afterwards, but he would tell everybody that he didn't. He was one of those guys who was very big on the, "don't ever give somebody an order that you wouldn't follow yourself," sort of line of thought. So, lopping off heads? Sure, absolutely, somebody has to do it. That's the kind of guy he was. I mean, kind of a jerk, but he had some redeeming features, too.
AcornArmy:
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzs9aU7KEwo
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Is Harry Dresden going to make it to the screen again? ~0:01, Part 2
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If you had a choice, who would you have play Harry on-screen? ~1:00, Part 2
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Q: Do you think Murphy will take up the Sword for good?
A: Um, [sing-song]I'm not gonna tell you![/sing-song]
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Do you still find time to LARP? ~2:00, Part 2
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Q: What are the chances of me writing another Alera series, or another series in general?
A: 100%, because I have to get a break from that Dresden guy, or I'll hate him. By the time I get to the end of a book it's like, "Man, I am so sick of hanging out with you." It's not that he's a bad guy or anything, it's just like, you know, when you have family come to visit, and the first three or four days is great, and after that it's just a ticking clock until somebody picks up a knife. But, yeah, I'm working on a trilogy now that is probably going to be the prequel trilogy to my epic Epic Fantasy Epic that I'm gonna write one day. "It's so epic it needs a prequel trilogy!" It's largely inspired by the Black Company.
Q: Who is your favorite author?
A: Robert Parker.
[Audience: You should have said Shannon!]
A: I probably should have said Shannon, but she wouldn't have believed me because, you know, I haven't read her stuff. [Further answer ~4:30, Part 2]
Q: You mentioned Robert Parker, is there any connection between that and the Susan character and her fate.
A: No, not really. I had to name her something, so it was Susan. Actually, I think it was the Tick that influenced that more than anything. "Susan?" "Oh, now you're not even trying!"
Q: Jim: He wants to know the first sentence of the next book. [stuff about spoiling people, then--]
A: "Mab has unique ideas on physical therapy." And we'll kind of go from there.
Q: She writes and she knows there are always 8 billion super-cool things that she comes up with and that she couldn't fit into the book with a crowbar, and wonders if Jim is the same and could he tell us some of them.
A: Really, my process doesn't work like that. I'm a fundamentally lazy writer, I try and build the book as lean as I possibly can, just because it makes the editor's job easier and then they like me and take me out to dinner. There are a few things that have gotten taken out. When I was working with Jan Heddel(sp?) she came back with the manuscript to Grave Peril and said, "This is awesome, and I want you to expand on these four story lines, and cut the book by fifty pages." And I said, so you want me to make the book larger and smaller? And she said, "Yes! And hurry." There was a scene with a ghoul that had I planned on using for ghoul-related foo in Chicago that I had to delete. There was a vampire attack where the vampire tried to tear out the Blue Beetle's engine, and didn't realize that it was in the back, not the front. But those are the only really large things that I dropped.
Q: Is Carlos still a virgin?
A: I'm not gonna tell you.
Q: Are we ever going to see Sue the T-Rex again?
A: Are you kidding? I couldn't just let that sit. It might be awhile, but we're gonna get her out again, because that was just too cool to not do again.
Q: Have we met the people who created the Hexenwolf belts yet?
A: That's another "I'm not gonna tell you" question. I will say, "kind of," "not really," and "yes." But we'll get into more of that during Cold Days as well.
Q: Are we ever going to see the Jade Court get involved in things?
A: They're really isolationist, which means they really don't care what's happening outside of their own sphere of influence, which is largely China. We're not going to see them, definitely, in any of the case books. They might show up in the big old trilogy I'm going to do at the end. That's the plan, in case you didn't know, there are going to be about twenty-ish of the Dresden Files, depending on whether or not my kid goes to grad school. And then I'm gonna write a big old apocalyptic trilogy for the very end.
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