#9 The Nature of Wednesdays, Hero Arcs, and Epic Fantasy vs. Urban Fantasy

Head Trip

English - July 17, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 102 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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Jackson talks about (0:00) The Metaphysical nature of Wednesdays, Creativity and Innocence (16:07) Story Talk - My struggle flip-flopping between epic fantasy and urban fantasy (17:05) Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories (22:20) Epic Fantasy, Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones (25:55) Harry Potter and the Epic Fantasy arc of hero vs villain (29:45) Fantastic Beasts, spinoffs and sequels (32:28) The solution I came up, marrying epic fantasy and urban fantasy (34:55) My two favorite TV series, "Mad Dogs" and "Life" and how they have both inspired my Tomorrow City story.