13 - Prophecies

Daystar and Alexander discuss some of the major problems with prophecies in stories, and ways to potentially avoid the major pitfalls.

Co-hosted by Alexander Wales

With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, G.A.T.O Must Be Respected

Links

Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind

Game of Thrones series by George R. R. Martin

Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Bad Seed The Good Son Daystar's rant about prophecies Article on One Problem, One Solution Timestamps: 1:22 Prophecy as a way of Spoiling Tension
5:56 Creating Conflict
10:35 Developing Characters
11:45 Prophecy Tension
16:45 Predictable Attempts to avoid Prophecy
19:00 Shallow Intrigue
22:10 How to make prophecy work
30:55 Tricking Prophecies
37:03 Conditional Prophecies
39:20 Prophecy in the Real World
47:23 Being Clever in Subversion
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