*Previously: The Magicians tattoo.
Showing posts with label the magicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the magicians. Show all posts
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
From Lev Grossman's Q&A today
At Quora:
The two things that most influenced the way magic works in The Magicians, apart from reading an eff-ton of other novels with magic in them, are these:
One, studying the cello for ten years. The physical rigor and at times discomfort of that, of trying to use your misshapen fallen body to produce transcendent beautiful music, has a lot to do with the way I imagine magic feels.
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I feel some nostalgia for the days when magic was wilder. Gandalf for example: you never knew what he could or couldn't do, and that was kind of exciting.
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I've studied [JK Rowling's] books over and over and over again.
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Link roundup
1. Excellent review of the first episode of The Magicians (which was redeemed only by the appearance of The Beast).
2. "The Order In Which I Would Have Murdered the 'And Then There Were None' Guests"
3. "A man in Northern California was charged with arson after he allegedly set fire to homes and cars belonging to his groomsmen in revenge for not supporting him after his marriage fell apart"
2. "The Order In Which I Would Have Murdered the 'And Then There Were None' Guests"
3. "A man in Northern California was charged with arson after he allegedly set fire to homes and cars belonging to his groomsmen in revenge for not supporting him after his marriage fell apart"
Friday, October 2, 2015
Lev Grossman on failure (and strategically going after Game of Thrones fans)
Some answers from an AMA today:
It took me 10 years to get my first novel published. Six more years to get my second published. Five years after that to get my third one published, and that was the first really successful one.
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In the interim I wrote probably 100 short stories, of which zero got published. I've had a lot more failure than success.
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I wrote the first draft of The Magicians in a year, almost exactly: June 2004 to July 2005. Then I revised continuously till it was published in 2009. A lot of it was deepening the characters, adding complexity. A lot of it was making the writing less awful, very gradually. A whole lot of it was complicating the plot: connecting one thing to another. How would they find the button. Who would sleep with whom. Very basic stuff -- it's almost embarrassing to admit it. Who was The Beast? When he first arrived, I didn't even know.
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The Magicians was my third novel but my first to break out at all. The gross, crappy truth is, you have to spend some time looking at the marketplace. See what people have done, and how you can put a twist on it. Look for where there's a gap in the market. I saw that George RR Martin had done a very gritty, serious, adult take on epic fantasy. Maybe I could do the same thing with the more Narnia/Harry Potter kind of fantasy? Nobody was doing that. There was a gap there.
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It wasn't as calculated as that makes it sound. But I realize in retrospect, that's one reason The Magicians got to that next level: it found a gap.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Brakebills logo
Outside a Brakebills classroom #doublepotions pic.twitter.com/nrWV9Ian0h
— Lev Grossman (@leverus) September 3, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
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