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It wasn't an awkward question. There are many writers who absolutely need to at least a rough outline to help them know where they want their story to go and their characters to end up. Some writers, like Clancy or King, just make up interesting characters, think up interesting situations, and develop the story by the seat of the pants. The latter fascinates people who have it drilled in their minds that they need an outline, including me. He wants to know who he does it, but like many successful pantsers, he just... gets it, to the point that he doesn't need to care about it. That's amazing in my book.
I know right ? Plus I'm sure he would call Ubisoft out for what they are doing From ruining series like Rainbow Six To slapping his name on everything (like "Tom Clancy's XDefiant")
@@OperatorMax1993 Oh the fact that his name was being abused for an ungodly amount of profit, with no regards for quality, would absolutely warm his Reaganite heart.
I was obsessed with Tom Clancy's work growing up. Especially the Jack Ryan series, a huge inspiration to me. I was really sad when he passed, what a great talent!
4 months to write something as intricate and complex as Rainbow Six yet George Martin can't finish one book a decade. We miss you Tom Clancy you were the Tolkien of the political and covert war genre.
@@TheEFedsAreComin they all were good especially patriot games and clear and present danger. Thankfully you're in the minority because everyone else seemed to enjoy them.
I don't think, there has ever a game made based on his books which have followed the book's plot accurately. even the Splinter Cell games uses different plots. and Rainbow Six, as you know is a FPS co-op, instead of following the story of the character John Clark.... it's such a shame though, the books has a great potential, (they have better plot and universe building than whatever ubisoft has did with their games so far) they are filled with thrilling espionage stories. adapting them into the video game format would be a great achievement. they could directly competition with Metal Gear series. sadly Ubisoft has no brain, they just want to do quick cash grab in the name of Tom Clancy
He spent thousands of hours with military officers and intelligence specialists to get a deeper understanding of the military in just about every regard. He was literally a military subject matter expert that happened to be good at writing fictional military thrillers.
Rainbow Six is my all-time favorite book. I still have the copy I bought when I was 13 and I've re-read it more times than I can recall. I recently started re-reading it and I'm shocked at how well it's held up over 20 years later. Also "You let your characters do your thinking for you" that's the single most concise way you could think of to write a good story. It's that simple but also that difficult
In Rainbow Six’s case it actually makes sense. It’s a string of operations that are strung together. It’s not bad by any means, but any of the operations in the book could be excused without it hurting the greater plot with the exception of the final op.
8:41 Fast forward to 2021 and we finally got a Without Remorse movie. Shame that it was nowhere close to the level of quality that the earlier movies based on Tom Clancy books were like The Hunt for the Red October and Clear and Present Danger. The novel Without Remorse deserved much better.
Interviewer: Tom why this book Tom: just cause Interviewer: why just cause Tom: I dunno just cause you ever picked up a 6 iron over a 5 iron its just cus it felt right!
It's definitely one of his most free-flowing and fun books to read. Didn't quite have the same level of techno-storytelling or depth of his best books. It was just a bunch of guys going on a bunch of missions. But it's a very nice read.
It was very interesting to meet Tom Clancy in person shortly after I returned from Desert Storm. It was even more interesting when I had called him up on the phone and talked with him a couple of years earlier. As a result of that conversation, I knew that the basic premise of Cardinal of the Kremlin was focused on SDI before the book actually came out.
I would have liked to hear Clancy's take on America and the global situation today. It uncanny how his novels spoke of situations we are seeing now. His legacy is just being slightly mirrored by the media bearing his name now. Really would have loved to hear his views
One of - if not - my favorite Tom Clancy books , the video game was a real breakthrough, how good was late nineties early 00 literally eating all his books … that was a good time
Tom Clancy seriously helped me figure out the kind of stories I wanna tell, and while other authors helped me figure out my style of writing them, he is and will always be my greatest inspiration.
No... Tom is a little off base here.... most of the time we call them snake eaters because of a little annual training called Cobra Gold. Held in secret thailand jungles.... google it
@@billysm00th Actually no. The nickname "Snake Eaters" is from Vietnam. The Green Berets developed a love-and-hate relationship with the nickname afterwards because it reminded them of the indisciplined cowboys the US Army Special Forces had back in "Nam".
It's amazing how he doesn't write outlines, I absolutely need at least a rough understanding of where my characters are going to end up. This guy knows his stuff.
Grew up playing the games but I only read his early works when I was young. Came across this book when I was in prison & never realized Rainbow was actually from his books (since none of the other Tom Clancy games are directly derived from his works).
lol this interviewer is working hard to hold up the conversation, it always surprises me when writers say so little but yet have so much to say in their books.
Glad he got into video games. This was the first book of his I read, and it’s because I was into the games. Even the Jack Ryan movies didn’t get me into the books. I also like the books by other authors. Just finished Ghost Recon Wildlands. Was looking for something along those lines so now I’m reading Without Remorse.
Tom is straight forward from the hip. His responses are so good he makes the interviewer feel uncomfortable. He is more military than the military especially for not being a major part of the military and his knowledge of the military speaks for itself in his novels. PAL ?! .
This kind of time capsules are very informative and shiny like a mirror. Now someone just needs to learn from history. Archeologist, History Teacher and other kind of past experts for president
I am in my thirties. Still reading hella lots of books but especially disturbed by the fact that i binged on Tom's books when I was between ten yrs to about 17 yrs. Something was wrong with me cos now I struggle with his books.
That is interesting how Clancy tells about terrorist threat as a minor thing for contemporary United States just three years before the 9/11. The event that pulled the country into the conflict lasting for decades, cost zillions of dollars and lots and lots and lots of lost human lives.
You are 100% right it’s super interesting here his pretty mainstream take on terror from the pre-9/11 world. And wonder how his opinions would have changed Post 9/11. But no one could have predicted a terror attack like that at the time. It was bombs, car bombs, grenades, and hostage taking. No one had ever thought to use an airplane as the weapon. In hind sight yeah we see it as an obvious next step, but back then no one would have thought like that. Other then bin Laden. And it changed our world sadly.
@@tswims92 Totally disagree. The possibility of massive terror event was well known and elaborated in mass media and most probably in the agency studies. It was deemed "less probable", but the threat itself was there. It was connected to terrorists gaining access to "special materials" like nuclear devices, radioactive material, chemical weapons, dangerous biological agents, etc. But destroying a skyscraper by means of explosives, mechanical force and/or fire was quite obvious too. Even WTC as a targeting by islamic terrorist group was nothing new. 1993 WTC bombing was a failed attempt to do exactly the same thing. Airplane was just a tool. Using airplane as a missile wasn't a very novel idea either. We have to give credit to bin laden for putting all the pieces together and, the main thing, making it through the whole complex and high risk process of the preparation and execution. But no way the idea of act of terrorism of that scale. And that is what I meant here. Clancy thought terrorism is a minor thing.
Clancy's take on the current events and foreshadowing is brilliant. Partisan politics did indeed weaken Clinton and make us vulnerable to terrorism. That lead to Bush being elected and his overreaction to our response.
It's not that Tom Clancy brought a different approach to view national security & naval strategy, it's that he found (like I did during my time) that USN officers corps suffers from a seriously pathetic lack of intellectual discourse. This is because the USN is run by engineers.
