Brent Weeks in conversation with Evan Winter

Brent and Evan talk about action, plot, and pacing on the Orbit Live Crowdcast channel. Presented by Tubby & Coo's Booksellers. Original air date 9 September 2020.
Answered questions:
How do you organize ideas and projects? Pen and paper, Excel/Word, in your mind palace etc.
Once you've identified that there's a particular area of writing that you want to improve on (e.g. romance plots), how do you go about improving that skill? Are there a bunch of vignettes in your worlds that you'll nefariously package as a short story collection one day?
How did you find your "voice" in the your writing. Did it come naturally or did a favorite author or person inspire the way you write your novels?
How would you describe the taste of your readers’ tears?
(asked by fantasy author Peter V Brett)
What is your opinion on writing "groups"? You know, those people who get together (pre-pandemic days) and share bits about their writing, excerpts or otherwise? Helpful or detrimental in your experience?
What has been the greatest struggle with overlapping subplot lines trying to mingle with the main plot? How do you keep everything from getting muddled?
How do you find the balance between "wow this character is a brat/ jerk" and "wow this character is a brat/ jerk, but I love him"? Open question to both authors, but from experience, Kip and Durzo could have both been really grating characters because of their "unlikable" qualities, but I ended up loving them. Do you leave this up to your beta readers to decide what is "too much"?

[@DanielGreeneReviews]

Legends!!

[@DAngeloReid]

Wow! Two of my fav authors having a chat. I love it!

[@chuckyscookie5323]

This was great to watch. Brent has been my favorite writer for almost a decade now, and Evan one of my favorite new discoveries in more recent years. So having the two of you in a such a conversation together is one of the best combinations I could think of. Also, you're probably a pair of authors that likes to put their character through the wringer more than most, so that's an interesting similiarity :D

[@JTMoustache]

My two favourite fantasy authors

[@KyleAPemberton]

It starts at 2:40

[@TheButterflyChaos]

Seeing your interviews make me so happy. You guys rise to the top of the TBR pile

[@MrLGDUK]

Thank you! As a new writer, there are so many things said that I'm nodding along to as you chat and as you answer questions, and it's just so inspiring to know that great writers like yourself and Evan Winter have been through the same struggles that I'm currently battling with! Thank you so much, what an epic video! You are both heroes. 😁

[@JayMoreau]

Enjoyed the conversation. Huge fan of your writing. I need to check out Evan’s work. He is incredibly insightful and interesting while maintaining a humility that is very approachable.

[@gravesbruce]

Epic fantasy with a plausible historical foundation in the African empires of the bronze age. I see this series as a production like Game of Thrones. I also envision Israel Adesanya as the protagonist.

[@tap836]

What Evan talks about with the Flash is an issue I've had with all the CW's DC superhero shows. They make the superheroes so stupid and incapable of using their abilities to easily defeat the villain in ways you know are possible and regularly used.

[@emmanuelboakye1124]

Some good writing tips😁😁

[@billyalarie929]

10:25 i think that's the part of WOT that they call "the slog"