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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: guessingo on June 13, 2010, 06:59:28 PM
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ok I am sure this has been posted before, I can't find it. I saw some things from brandon about how his friends liked it. I listened to an interview from him on The Dragon Page from back in 2007 and he said he was working on that next. I take it that went on the back burner when he got WoT.
Why did he decide to work on Way of Kings instead of Dragonsteel? Or was he originally going to do both and just intermix the releases?
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I have no inside knowledge of the matter. However, I did read his blog posts when he was talking about the WoK revisions. In those posts, he said he felt writing the WoT had stretched him as a writer to the point where he could handle a series as epic in scope as he wanted the Stormlight Archive to be. So, from where I'm sitting, I say blame
Canada the WoT.
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If it were not for the Wheel of Time, he would have written the sequel to Warbreaker next, then started the Dragonsteel series. But the way he structured the Dragonsteel series was as a sort of backdoor epic--two books, then you skip hundreds or thousands of years and start a 5-book series that might even have a different series name. (Plus his first draft of the first book, Liar of Partinel, turned out bad; he tried using a more discovery-writing process and it just didn't work for him.) Instead, he felt that the series he should launch coming off the Wheel of Time would be an epic that was immediately identifiable as such and would most appeal to WoT fans. And it just happened that he'd been wanting to write the series starting with Way of Kings for years, and this made the time right.
Plus what ryos said.
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I'm much more comfortable blaming Canada.
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Is Brandon going to write all 10 Stormlight books straight through or does he plan to rotate series and do different things?
Does he have plans for the release cycle of these books? Is it every year, every 2 years?
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I'd say wait another 8-12 months (when the WoT storm has settled) then ask again. He's going to be swamped with marketing obligations as soon as book two comes out. Again when the last volume is released (assuming this isn't it), and again when they decide to to do a revision that binds the books as a boxed set. Then bug Peter, he'll know.
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I believe the current plan is two SLA books, then another book (Elantris 2, second MB trilogy, etc), then two more SLA books, then another. As for the frequency of their release, I've heard three books every two years, but I could be remembering that wrong.
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That's what he's said, fRR, but he's also said he'll have to see when he gets there.
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Blaming Canada eh?
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You know that everything's gone wrong every since Canada came along.
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What was that you said about my mother?
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I think I'm missing the joke, but what does Canada have to do with WOT?
Also, the three books every two years, 2 SLA, one other, is the information I'm working from.
Honestly, I don't have enough information about Dragonsteel to say whether or not I'd prefer that or SLA next, but SLA looks totally cool. Also, this will be my first BS book where I'll be with you guys from day 1! Excited!
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Well, DS and WoK are similar enough that Brandon has said to hold off on reading it until you've read WoK.
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DS is an amazingly wonderful book. And what I've read of Liar was different but really good as well. I would really like to see it done, but I think doing WoK first will cause that series to become better in the end, and from what I can tell it is going to be the series that finishes tying everything together.
The one I really want to come out is the Scribbler series. D: I loves it so much.
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@Fireborn: It is a joke. There was a song that was nominated for an academy award in the South Park movie back in 1999 called Blame Canada.
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@Fireborn: It is a joke. There was a song that was nominated for an academy award in the South Park movie back in 1999 called Blame Canada.
In which Canada was in fact blamed. It's a great song.
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And only partially a Joke. Second City blew the lid off the Great Canadian Conspiracy back in the 80's. From Lorne green to Greenday, it's a war. After all, we've had more wars with Canada than with the British Commonwealth at large or even Mexico!.
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Just remember friends, in the war of 1812, we Canucks burned the white house down ;).
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Just remember friends, in the war of 1812, we Canucks burned the white house down ;).
Yeah, well, you guys invented curling, so I think we've got the better deal.
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I love curling. The Simpsons curling episode showed a basic ignorance of the rules of the game (I understand the ones they broke because it was the Simpsons, but they could have been more accurate with a minimum of effort, like not having both teams use the same color stones) which was to be expected, but the game is actually very interesting. It's all about physics and mechanics, so it's very geeky.
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I love curling. The Simpsons curling episode showed a basic ignorance of the rules of the game (I understand the ones they broke because it was the Simpsons, but they could have been more accurate with a minimum of effort, like not having both teams use the same color stones) which was to be expected, but the game is actually very interesting. It's all about physics and mechanics, so it's very geeky.
It's the only Winter Olympics sport that I can watch besides Snowboarding. I can't get enough curling come Olympics time. I record every single one. ^____^
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HBO's real sports did a terrific spot on Curling. It was pretty funny. Apparently one of the ice makers in Canada is a celebrity.
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so i thought there was going to be a discussion of something related to dragonsteel on this page. instead i get Curling???
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My fault, sorry. I tried to be funny and derailed the thread. (Though, I think everything that will be said has been. There's not a lot to talk about because so few have read the book.)
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Well, Brandon doesn't really want people to read it anyway.
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When I told him I had read it, he apologized to me because he thinks it poorly written. I'm still looking forward to when he revisits it in the future. Good story.
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When I told him I had read it, he apologized to me because he thinks it poorly written. I'm still looking forward to when he revisits it in the future. Good story.
Why does he keep a copy in BYU's library if he doesn't want anybody to read it is the big question? Is it because it was his thesis or something and can't be removed? (I remember it being something like that)
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When I told him I had read it, he apologized to me because he thinks it poorly written. I'm still looking forward to when he revisits it in the future. Good story.
Why does he keep a copy in BYU's library if he doesn't want anybody to read it is the big question? Is it because it was his thesis or something and can't be removed? (I remember it being something like that)
Yeah, it's his thesis.
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I suppose that he likes that fact that its almost never actually AT the library. ;D