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Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
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Patrick James Rothfuss
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My only real daydreamy casting over the years has been Natalie Portman for Denna. She's an amazing actress, and Denna is going to be one of the hardest characters to pull off.
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Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
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Practice makes the master.
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Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.
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But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
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If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.
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Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.
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I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.
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In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.
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I need you to breathe for me.
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