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Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Terry Pratchett Interview at PC Zone

As a fantasy writer, do you find yourself preferring fantasy games, or does spending time in an imaginary land feel like another day at the office?

T.P. Ho ho. No, I'll pretty much play anything that's intelligent and has some depth. That means Half-Life 2 and not Doom 3, for example"

What do you make of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion? What have been your favourite moments?

T.P. I'm a thief and an assassin, and treat the game as a continuation of the Thief universe. I'm in it for the sneaking, but I like the free form nature of the game, the fact that you can ignore the quests and set off into this big, complex world. You really can explore. All the best moments have been in the shadows. Pick pockets, open locks, creep away.

We're really excited about Warhammer Online - a World Of Warcraft-style affair that shows its British roots with a real underlying sense of humour. Can you take po-faced fantasy seriously? Or do you prefer stuff that's slightly more tongue-in-cheek?

T.P. If it offers good gameplay, I don't mind. You should be able to immerse yourself in a game - in other words, take it seriously in context. Taking it seriously is part of the fun.

What have been your favourite games of the past few years?

T.P. Far Cry, Call Of Duty, Half-Life 2 and a great many fan missions for Thief! A good fan mission is a joy, because the author reads your mind.

Do you think Discworld would ever work as either an Oblivion-style solo adventure or as a gargantuan MMO?

T.P. No. I think games like that have to be slightly vanilla, so the player does some of the work. I don't think a Discworld game could be free form enough.

Even though they were fiendishly difficult, the Discworld point-and-clicks are our favourites. How heavy was your involvement with them? Do you remember them as fondly as we do?

T.P. My involvement was very high with the first, and when I realised the guys knew what they were doing, I let them get on with it. They were fun, and of their time." Did you get the number of that donkey cart? "I think it was 'one'!

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Wywiadzik z Terrym z DiscworldConu 2006. Waży 18 Mb i może długo nie pobyć, więc ssijcie 8-)

Właśnie zassałem i zaczynam słuchać.

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http://www.andrec.plus.com/

Krejt · Administrator Wiek: 29 Dołączył: 13 Lut 2004

Sett, patrz dwa posty wyżej.
Lolu.

Swoją drogą - wyobrażacie sobie Praczeta przycinającego w FarKraja? OMG, groteskowy widok.

[ Komentarz dodany przez: settler: Wto Sie 29, 2006 9:39 am ]
Nie dawaj mi osta, adminie

. Juz kasuje powtorke.

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Najnowszy wywiad z Terrym, po niemiecku (scheise):

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http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/i...3975671,00.html

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Króciutki wywiad z Pratchettem po ukazaniu się Wintersmitha.

Talking with Terry Pratchett

Cytat:

Tiffany Aching has decided she wants to be a witch when she grows up. What did you want to be when you were Tiffany’s age?

When I was Tiffany’s age, I wanted to be an astronomer. I never succeeded in my ambition, because astronomers have to be good at math, and I’ve never been very good at math. I thought astronomy was a really cool job, because you got to stay up late at night. But I have to say I’m very pleased that now, because of the success of my writing, I’ve built my own observatory.

Tiffany read the dictionary straight through because no one had told her she wasn’t supposed to. Did you ever read the dictionary straight through?

Ha! Yes, I did it when I was a kid. I read dictionaries all the way through: dictionaries, thesauruses, dictionaries of slang, all that sort of thing, for the sheer fun of doing it. I think I was a rather weird kid, to be frank.

Tiffany is also an expert cheesemaker. Have you ever made cheese?

Yep. Goat’s cheese. We used to keep goats, which are really just like sheep, but a lot more intelligent and much, much more bad-tempered. I was pretty good at goat cheese, I have to say. I could make goat cheese again if someone wanted me to.

The landscape Tiffany grew up in is clearly based on the English chalk country—you’ve said there is amazingly little you had to make up about her home. What can you tell us about this part of England?

A large area of southern England is on the chalk; in fact, the White Cliffs of Dover are chalk. I live on the chalk, about twelve miles from Stonehenge. I even own about forty acres of the chalk. You always to see sheep on the chalk, it tends to be very high country, and you don’t see too many trees. It’s really the center of all our mythologies in England. There’s Stonehenge there, and strange ancient carvings, and the burial mounds of dead chieftains. Back in the days when the valleys were just all flooded and swampy, the chalk uplands were how people moved around, and, in the heart of it all, was Stonehenge.

Is Tiffany’s family in any way based on your own?

Well, I grew up on the chalk. I was born in the Chiltern Hills, which is another chalk outcrop. And a lot of the things that Tiffany thinks and sees, in fact, I thought and saw when I was her age; a lot of the way Tiffany comprehends the landscape is based on my own experiences. I don’t come from a farming family, but I spent a lot of time among farmers and their families when I was a kid. I’m the actual archetypal example of an only child, so I had plenty of time to myself. My paternal grandmother has a very special place in my heart, just as Tiffany’s grandmother, does, because when I was a kid I was allowed to read from her bookshelf. It was a very short bookshelf, but it contained every book you really ought to read, like the complete short stories of H. G. Wells, and the complete short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I just worked my way along my granny’s bookshelf and didn’t realize that I was getting an education.

In Tiffany’s world, being a witch means, in part, to have certain duties and responsibilities. How did you decide to include these obligations as part of your definition of witchcraft?

Certainly witchcraft for Tiffany has very little to do with magic as people generally understand it. It has an awful lot to do with taking responsibility for yourself and taking responsibility also for the less able people and, up to a certain point, guarding your society. This is based on how witchcraft really was, I suspect. The witch was the village herbalist, the midwife, the person who knew things. She would sit up with the dying, lay out the corpses, deliver the newborn. Witches tended to be needed when human beings were meeting the dangerous edges of their lives, the places where there is no map. They don’t mess around with tinkly spells; they get their hands dirty.

And then there are the Nac Mac Feegle. They’re the most feared of all the fairy races, and yet they’re also loyal, strong, and very funny. How did you come up with the Nac Mac Feegle?

I thought it very strange, and very sad that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they’re like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times. They speak a mixture of Gaelic, Old Scots, Glaswegian and gibberish. And they’re extremely brave, and they’re extremely small, and extremely strong, and there’s hundreds and hundreds of them, and they just are automatically funny. You can’t help but love them, at a distance.

What happens to get you to sit down your desk and write the opening words of a new novel?

I’m not sure. I start with a handful of semiformed ideas and play around with them until they seem to make some sense. Actually typing is important to me—it kind of tricks my brain into gear. I’ve got a pack-rat mind, like most writers, and once I starting thinking hard about a new project all kinds of odd facts and recollections shuffle forward to get a place on the bus.

Do you know where a story is going when you start writing, or do you let the story take control and see where it takes you?

This answer deserves one sentence or an essay! I’ll try to summarize it like this: writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started) and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you’re sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as “making it up as you go along”; it’s a very careful process of control.

The fantasy genre is often thought of as escapism, but is it escapism with a firm root in reality?

Fantasy IS escapism, but wait...why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G. K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy—the ability to envisage this world in many different ways—is one of the skills that makes us human.

Your Discworld novels are fantastically successful. Now you’re writing Discworld novels specifically for younger readers. Why?

I think my heart has always been in writing for children. My first book was written for children, and a few years ago I realized that if I wrote a few books for younger readers I could approach Discworld in a different way. There’s a lot of difference between writing for children and writing for adults, and it’s almost impossible to tell you what it is, but I know it when I’m doing it. You have more fun, and I have to say, it’s a little bit harder, especially if you do it right.

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

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Terry Pratchett and his first job
By Paul Leat

FANTASY writer Terry Pratchett has lifted the lid on his early career at the Bucks Free Press - and admitted he was not quite cut out to be a journalist.

The popular author and creator of Disc World joined the Free Press as a 17-year-old but said he never really became a real news hound.

In an interview with Mark Lawson for the BBC, Mr Pratchett said: "It worried me that in the nature of journalism you had to chop the world up into little lumps of 150 words. You could never tell the whole story.

"I was never very good at the doorstep, asking How did you feel Mrs Jones when your son was knifed by the Hell's Angels?' because on the whole you had a pretty good idea how they felt. But we had to ask the dumb questions often when neither you or the person wanted to talk about it."

Mr Pratchett, who grew up in Beaconsfield, wrote to the Free Press when he was still at school claiming he hoped to get three A-levels.

He said: "I wasn't spectacularly good at anything so journalism was the natural course. I could arrange words in a pleasing order.

"I wasn't cer-tain I would get three A-levels but those were the days before the media. You started off by getting a job on your local paper.

"I said to my mum and dad that I wanted to leave school and get a job at the Bucks Free Press. My mum was thinking, one day, editor of The Times."

Arthur Church, the editor, called him in for an interview and he was given the job.

He said: "I think he actually said to me I like the cut of your jib, which was probably the last time anyone said it. Arthur Church was a great editor. He cared about High Wycombe and how it was reported."

At the Free Press his first short stories were published in the children's corner of the paper.

He said: "Nobody wanted to do the children's corner so I volunteered. I would do little children's stories, one-offs and running narratives. I wrote The Carpet People as part of a series but at home I was writing it as a full length novel."

The book was published in 1971 after Mr Pratchett showed it Colin Smythe, a pub-lisher in Gerrards Cross.

He said: "He hadn't published any fantasy but he bought it because he liked it. I thought this is how you do it'."

He left the Free Press in 1980 to work as a press officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board but left seven years later to take up writing full-time.

He said his success was largely down to his childhood growing up in Bucks.

"I owe a lot to Beaconsfield public library. I think I must have read every book in there," he said.

- Mark Lawson's interview with Terry Pratchett will be shown on BBC4 on Tuesday, November 21 at 9pm.

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Cytat:

Terry Pratchett interview

The theme of Wintersmith seems to be the mistakes adolescents make.

"Well I just extended things on from the first two books featuring Tiffany. I don't know if it's exactly about the mistakes adolescents make, but I know what you mean. I thought it quite nice to start with her making a huge mistake cos, frankly, that's how half the fairytales work: you do something bad, you open the wrong door, you step off the path, you go into the wood when you shouldn't, and bad things happen and you have to work your way out of them. There's one hell of a lot of folklore in Wintersmith but all of it's chopped up and repainted."

Where did Tiffany come from originally?

"God knows. Interviews like this are always about post-facto reasoning. You create stuff and then afterwards you have to work out why it happened like that. But anyone who's written a fantasy book knows that a young protagonist is always useful cos when you're young you're ignorant, and you have to learn. And of course you want the readers to learn as well. And of course if the protagonist is female, in the normal fantasy setting, that puts her at a slight disadvantage compared to the boys, so there's going to be more for her to do. So, from a purely cynical point of view, Tiffany was a very good heroine to have. And, I don't know... I just liked her from the word go."

She's got tough teachers, especially Granny Weatherwax.

"I think Granny moves her around so she's in position to learn the kinds of things she needs to learn. But it was clear to me that in Wintersmith Tiffany was older in many respects than she was in, say, The Wee Free Men and she's almost distressingly level-headed throughout most of the book, but I quite like that - I quite like heroes and heroines who think like we do, you know what I mean? We watch the movies and we start shouting at the screen: 'Don't split up! Don't start looking for the damn cat!' And you just know they're going to do it. Tiffany, generally speaking, tries to work things out."

Tell us a bit about the Nac Mac Feegles

"The Nac Mac Feegles are basically pixies who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times. They go around in a mob and they drink and fight and steal. And they're very, very popular among American kids. Somehow I seem to have crept in under the radar with that and it gets read in schools. I had to promise my American editor that they don't actually swear. Nothing that they actually say - even if we sit there with a book of Gaelic or Glaswegian slang - is actually a swear word. I think kids like it because they're anarchical, that they do what they want and they go where they please and we've all got a soft spot for people like that - except, of course, in real life."

And they've got their own Luggage in Horace the Cheese...

"Horace is just one of those things that turned up. He plays no important part in the plot, but I just liked the idea of a cheese that caught mice."

Tell us about the next book, Making Money.

"It's a direct sequel to Going Postal, involving several of the main characters. If you want a crude shorthand, it's [Going Postal's conman protagonist] Moist Van Lipwig doing for banking what he did for the Post Office. It's something of an ensemble book, there are lots of characters. Despite the fact that it takes place in the oldest bank in Ankh-Morpork, and Moist always thought of banks as being rather dull places, there are very few characters in it who are entirely sane."

Did Making Money come partly out of the research for Going Postal?

"Not really, but it came out of writing Going Postal because I was hinting then about Vetinari wanting the city to go over to paper money. A lot of the book is, if you step back from the fun and games, about: what is money? What is it that makes us believe that this little piece of paper with a picture on it is actually worth a good meal? What would happen if we stopped believing that?"

Tell us about the movie deal.

"I've just signed a movie deal with Sony for The Wee Free Men to be directed by Sam Raimi. That came about because Pamela Pettler [Corpse Bride], the scriptwriter, came across The Wee Free Men, fell in love with it and passed it on to Sam Raimi, who asked Sony to buy it."

Are you hopeful about it? Because you've been burned by Hollywood before...

"Burned... I don't know, but I've had lots of problems and, for example, Truckers is sitting there at DreamWorks, clearly waiting until they've finished Shrek 17 and that is a nuisance, but this time round I think I've got a pretty good deal no matter what happens. I've got some confidence this movie will go ahead and, if it doesn't, I'll be able to console myself by falling backwards onto the pile of money.

"One of the things that happened at the recent Discworld con was the guys from The Mob [the production company making Hogfather for Sky One] brought along a pretty-well finished trailer for Hogfather and that got a standing ovation. People were jumping up and down and crying and stuff. They had a million plastic teeth in four different tooth shapes made to help them fill up the Tooth Fairy's palace. They brought along a bag of them so that everyone in the audience could have a souvenir. So afterwards there was the queue for the teeth. Knowing fans you won't be surprised to know that, within minutes, the jeweller in the dealer room was being presented with teeth and asked to turn them into earrings and pendants."

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Najnowszy wywiad z Terrym z cyklu słynnych 60 sekundowych wywiadów dla Metra:

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60 SECONDS: Terry Pratchett

BY ANDREW WILLIAMS - Friday, December 15, 2006

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels has made him the biggest selling author in Britain behind JK Rowling, and one of the most read writers in the US. But despite selling more than 46million books, none of his titles have been adapted for films or TV – until now. The TV version of Hogfather starts on Sky One on Sunday at 8pm.

Why has it taken so long for a Discworld book to be turned into a film?

Because of me. I’m very particular about them. I’ve bought back film rights because nothing much was happening with them but the production company for Hogfather was keen to involve me at every stage. It’s different to dealing with Hollywood, there’s not as much money but there’s a lot more fun.

Did you get to make casting decisions?

Put it this way: I was asked in some cases who I’d be happy to see in a role and that person’s the one who ended up playing it. If I wanted Bernard Manning to play Susan I don’t think they’d have gone along with it. They were happy for me to see the film and do a little tweaking of the script.

Why is this book the first one that’s got the treatment?

It’s got a plot that’s not difficult to grasp – Discworld’s Hogswatch isn’t dissimilar to our Christmas. The iconography is the same, so it presses the same buttons. It’s easy to get your head around what’s going on, especially nowadays when Torchwood’s on 15 times a day and grandparents are Doctor Who fans. Fantasy isn’t the province of the few any more, it’s a staple part of movies and television.

The fantasy genre has become more mainstream. Why do you think that is?
It’s been happening for years and years, it’s now so mainstream, people don’t think of it as fantasy any more. You could say it’s disappearing as a genre. Once, fantasy and sci-fi were always at the back of the shop, like a VD clinic – those who needed to knew where to find it. I went out of genre in the mid-1990s because every Discworld book was getting to No. 1 and I was getting readers who wouldn’t shop at Forbidden Planet. I found out I had a bunch of fans in a convent. The nuns sent a young lady to get their books signed at a signing because they couldn’t come themselves

What do you think is the appeal of the books?
It’s like being in an exclusive club that anyone can join. They’re set in an unashamedly fantasy world but it’s modern, there’s industry, it’s set in a city and we can recognise echoes of our own world in Discworld. Just like us, they’re intelligent beings doing stupid things. People say there’s a familiarity there – as if I’m holding up a mirror to the real world.

I have fans in a convent. The nuns sent a young lady to a book signing as they couldn't come themselves.

You used to write two Discworld books a year – isn’t that a tall order

I used to be a journalist where there was no such thing as ‘writer’s block’ because the editor would come and shout at you. I got into the habit of producing, that’s your job. If you don’t, the newspaper comes out with a hole in it. That’s what I carried over into writing.

When did you realise you were any good as a fiction writer?

I sold my first short story when I was 13 but I didn’t think I was any good, I thought I was lucky. The big moment was when I realised I was making more from the hobby than I was from the day job and that I could give up working for someone else.

Who are your literary heroes?

There are so many, I can’t go through them but I read crime fiction for pleasure – people such as Christopher Brookmyre, Donald Westlake – because it takes my mind off things.

Would you fancy writing something like that yourself?

A fantasy writer has the same paintbox as any other genre writer but you get a couple of extra colours and can use them as much or little as you like. I don’t want to rush off and write a standard crime novel because it’s more fun with the extra ingredient.

Do you get fans who take it a bit too seriously?

No, because it’s clearly a joke – the world is going through space on the back of a turtle, there’s no one out there who thinks it’s real. Death is a major character in the books. He’s kind of nice, he’s not to be feared because he comes after the pain. As he says in Hogfather, people don’t fear death, they fear loss, they fear pain, but death is the last friend people see. Readers who have been recently bereaved often write to me about the comfort the Discworld Death has given them. When an author gets a letter it brings home to you that there are readers out there.

You’ve sold 46million books, what have you spent the cash on?

A lot of it goes to charity. I’m having building work done and it’s amazing how much money that takes up. I’ve had a separate building built for my ‘shed’. It’s important to have somewhere to go for work with my business lines and my fax. I’m saving the rest of it for my old age.

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A tu przemowa z Noreascon w Bostonie:

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http://www.isficpress.com/TerryPratchett.mp3

Uboot · Wysłany: 14 Marzec 2007, 15:31

Wywiad z Pratchettem z programu Marka Lawsona (BBC Four)
część pierwsza
część druga

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Długi wywiad o Wintersmithie:

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http://www.seattlechannel....asp?ID=3030611

Fotorelacja z przemowy w Brisbane 14 lutego - fajne zdjęcia i fajne niektóre teksty

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http://www.brisbaneishome...uary-14th-2007/

Z fajnych tekstów, to że będzie 4 cz. Nauki, ma w planach 6 ksiażek, a raczej pomysły na 6 ksiażek, w sumie to on i Rowling nie mają się o co kłócić, bo doszli do wniosku, ze w sumie nie różnią się zbytnio w kwestii teorii literatury: Czyż nie jest fajnie glebnąć się na sterte kapuchy wielkosci katedry Św Pawła? :))

. Raczej nie chce już pisać ksiażek ze współautorami i inne takie...

Filmik z niemieckiego konwentu:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncC1DYrlOFs

[ Komentarz dodany przez: Uboot: 16 Marzec 2007, 06:46 ]
Było.
W sieci wyszperane

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

32 minutowy wywiad w formie webcastu;

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http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/authors/Pratchett.html

Świetny wywiad, świetne Q/A, Pratchetta riposty są tak śmieszne, że... :mrgreen:

Z ważniejszych rzeczy:
- dla Nation natchnieniem był obraz w głowie Pratchetta: chłopak stojący w deszczu na plazy
- natchnieniem dla Zimistrza był tytuł, który tak sie spodobał Pratchettowi, że powstała ksiażka
- W I Shall Wear Midnight Tiffany być może zabije kogoś
- Przydałaby się książka która opowiedziała by trochę o przeszłości Rinsa i może Pratchett taką napisze
- W Dobrym Omenie Pratchett napisał więcej tekstu zwiazanego z dzieciakami, a Gaiman z A. Nutter
- raczej nie będzie nowej książki z bohaterami Monstrous Regiment
- Oprócz tego, że Pratchett kończy Nation, to równolegle pisze z folklorystką książkę o Folklorze na Dysku (The Folclore of Discworld)
- W kolejnych powieściach będzie oczywiście A-M, bo to the biggest city, ale Pratchett chce zwiedzić jeszcze inne rejony Dysku i zrobi to.

A tu jeszcze jedne wywiadzik na deser:
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http://www.dailymail.co.u...in_page_id=1774

settler · Pirat Rabarbar Dołączył: 14 Lut 2004 Skąd: Gdańsk

I.Inni · Wiek: 20 Dołączył: 09 Wrz 2004

Anakolut · Wiek: 25 Dołączył: 18 Lut 2004 Skąd: Tczew/Olsztyn

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

Wielu tekściarzy pisze tak teksty piosenek, więc teoretycznie i praktycznie sie da :wink:

Leonel · Wiek: 19 Dołączył: 27 Maj 2006 Skąd: Warszawa

settler · Pirat Rabarbar Dołączył: 14 Lut 2004 Skąd: Gdańsk

Kor · Moderator Wiek: 30 Dołączył: 25 Kwi 2004 Skąd: Mstuff

OK to także nawiązania do Australii (to jest motyw przewodni książki), wierszy i piosnek australijskich, aborygenów, ewolucji...

settler · Pirat Rabarbar Dołączył: 14 Lut 2004 Skąd: Gdańsk

Mowimy o stronie fabularnej, ktora (jak zreszta chyba wiekszosc osob zauwazyla) jest dosc szczatkowa i ogranicza sie wlasnie do biegania.