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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Official WoK Fan Art (Here there be spoilers)
« on: April 13, 2011, 10:48:28 PM »
I love it, it is awesome.
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Don't listen to the jerks
« on: April 13, 2011, 10:55:08 AM »
either that or it will be so awesome that the universe will explode.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Im pissed about stormlight archive.
« on: April 12, 2011, 03:10:08 AM »
same here lol.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Im pissed about stormlight archive.
« on: April 10, 2011, 10:24:02 AM »
well, for what it's worth, Brandon's been pretty consistent about publishing at least one book a year, so he's probably not going to pull a Martin.
If you haven't read Warbreaker and Elantris yet, I recommend reading those for more Brandon, Warbreaker is even available for free online, also a stand-alone Mistborn novel is coming out in November.
Also, might I recommend joining the 17th Shard forums in order to discuss Brandon's books with an active group of fans? You'd want to stay out of the general theories section til you've read everything though as its a bit spoilerific.
If you haven't read Warbreaker and Elantris yet, I recommend reading those for more Brandon, Warbreaker is even available for free online, also a stand-alone Mistborn novel is coming out in November.
Also, might I recommend joining the 17th Shard forums in order to discuss Brandon's books with an active group of fans? You'd want to stay out of the general theories section til you've read everything though as its a bit spoilerific.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Bridge Crews & Bridges
« on: April 08, 2011, 08:41:41 AM »
Here's one that whoever runs the Ghostbloods could learn from:
My undercover agents will not have tattoos identifying them as members of my organization, nor will they be required to wear military boots or adhere to any other dress codes
My undercover agents will not have tattoos identifying them as members of my organization, nor will they be required to wear military boots or adhere to any other dress codes
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Your name in the Stormlight archive
« on: April 08, 2011, 03:23:00 AM »
I wish I wasn't broke.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Bridge Crews & Bridges
« on: April 08, 2011, 03:22:20 AM »The part that bothers me now is the distance between the crew and the Parshendi shooting at them. From 20 feet away, I don't know how any bridgeman lives through a single charge that isn't fully supported by covering fire.Maybe the Parshendi have really bad eyesight? Or they're facing the sun?
Nah, they probably have rambo-kinson disease. You know, how the good guy can just stand there and fire away at a huge enemy force and never be hit once?
Example
TVtropes references the same thing as the "Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmen Academy"
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: something suspicious
« on: April 06, 2011, 04:40:48 PM »
actually we *know* the divine Breaths are a part of Endowment, Brandon said so. It's in the annotations I believe.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: something suspicious
« on: April 06, 2011, 02:52:06 AM »
also Endowment is alive. And Preservation was technically alive for most of the series, just very weakened from imprisoning Ruin.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Don't listen to the jerks
« on: April 04, 2011, 05:07:38 PM »
I'm glad Brandon's finishing WoT because he's doing a great job,, an because I got to discover a new favourite author, who I may well never have known about if he hadn't been picked to finish WoT.
And yeah, I'm pretty sure Brandon will live to finish WoT and he'd better live to finish TSA..
Hopefully the Mayans were wrong.
And yeah, I'm pretty sure Brandon will live to finish WoT and he'd better live to finish TSA..
Hopefully the Mayans were wrong.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: something suspicious
« on: April 03, 2011, 08:31:20 AM »
I definitely noticed when re-reading that bit after reading WoK.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Guy at Work Had a Heart Attack Today (Brandon Related)
« on: March 31, 2011, 04:14:41 AM »
I wish I could do something like that,but my vision is poor, I wouldn't be able to see the book properly.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Vin is Gonna Lose to Jon Snow in the Suvudu cage match!
« on: March 30, 2011, 09:01:22 AM »
somebody called in the WoT fans and they voted for Vin a lot.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Kaladin and Syl *Spoilers*
« on: March 29, 2011, 04:49:50 AM »
I guess the spren that were associated with Surgebinders/the Radiants have been around a long time,other spren are newer (spawned by the death of the Almighty?)
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Vote for Vin!
« on: March 24, 2011, 05:45:01 PM »
Terry Goodkind would be mad.....he doesn't write fantasy, he writes books with meaning, because ya know, fantasy is meaningless escapism that never explores important human themes.
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