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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Brandon To Write Wheel of Time Book 12
« on: February 01, 2009, 08:19:24 PM »
I just started reading Mistborn and shot through part 1 in one night (no, not that impressive to most, but if you knew my schedule, you'd find that a feat).  I've believed Mr. Sanderson had the right stuff since listening in on some of the Writing Excuses podcasts, but actually seeing the work firsthand almost leaves me awed.

AMoL is going to be amazing, no matter how many pieces they cut it into.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Brandon To Write Wheel of Time Book 12
« on: November 13, 2008, 04:02:50 AM »
Hah, wow, I've always thought that the covers were pretty cool, if not overly detailed and somewhat distracting.  Too each his own, I suppose.

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Writing Group / Re: National Novel Writing Month 2008
« on: November 03, 2008, 05:53:17 AM »
I'm usually the guy that hits 9k after day 2 and then slows down because school takes over...

I had all weekend and I only got 900.  And school still threatens (oh boy, does it... my last year at college, the papers are trying to eat my soul...)

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Writing Group / Re: Writing Prompts!
« on: October 24, 2008, 03:08:55 AM »
In response to the prompt offered above:

The bloodstain looked like the gaping maw of a dragon, when he looked at it long enough.  They always looked like something, just like the clouds in the sky always became an image.  Sorvwyn took a step to the right to examine the blot once more, this time reading a jester's hat, tilted to the side.  He snorted a laugh, instantly wondering why he could never take murder scenes seriously.

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Writing Group / Re: National Novel Writing Month 2008
« on: October 23, 2008, 05:42:16 AM »
I've done this the past few years, and I have to say that it is an incredible experience.

I started out in 2006 as someone that has fallen in the trap of developing the same world and story for so long that all other ideas had been more or less pushed to the side.  October came, and I heard about NaNoWriMo from a friend that had done it the year previous.  She challenged me, and me being me, I couldn't back down.  So I looked through my 'Ideas on Hold' notebook to see what I should pull out.  I thought that since the spirit of NaNoWriMo was to write something quickly and feel the flow of an evolving story, I would pick an idea that was fairly vague.

So I selected my host of characters, which at this point only included the protagonists (The Guardians of Tralos), the king, and a few prototype dark mage types and that my keyword themes were "Conspiracy" and "Treason" (which helped spawn the title, The Tralos Conspiracy).  As I wrote, the plot unfolded into a whole lot more than I thought it would be, and found that by the time I had reached the end, something completely different had come out of it.  The "Conspiracy" and "Treason" were still there, but neither were what I thought they would be, and the story was left, by novel's end, unfinished.  Oh, and it was a NaNoWriMo victory, too.

I did it again in 2007, hitting the 50k word line early, but this one did not have the same surprise twist for me that the previous year had.  Part of it was that I decided to go with the sequel to The Tralos Conspiracy, which is The Tralos Conflict.  I'm actually still putting the finishing touches on this one at around 100k words, so it's short, but since my writing is still developing, I figure that these drafts will serve mostly as a guide to when I can come back and write them 'for real' (for fun, of course... this is merely a hobby for me).

This year... I'm not sure if I will be able to hit the mark, but I'm going to try.  When the Tralos Conspiracy and Tralos Conflict failed to be resolved in two books, I fell into the 'trilogy trap,' so with a little luck, I can finish the story and score a third NaNoWriMo victory with The Tralos Crisis.

Sorry for the length... I didn't intend to go off on this tangent when I first started this post.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Brandon To Write Wheel of Time Book 12
« on: October 22, 2008, 08:01:19 PM »
This may be my first post on the TWG, but I've been following the WoT news fairly closely and have found myself listening to some of the early Writing Excuses podcasts (I feel behind over the summer, and when/if life calms down for me, I will jump back onboard, haha).  Even though I have yet to read any of Mr. Sanderson's published works, I've found that through his solid advice in the podcasts and his sound reasoning in his articles that I believe he can finish AMoL in a very respectful and well-written way.

And no matter what I think of it, I promise I will pick up his other works after reading AMoL.  I'm just bogged down in some other readings at the moment, and NaNoWriMo is on the way (gasp, time flies!).

-Joshua

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