Mistborn Reads

[Prometheus]

So is the plan to rewrite Way of Kings I partially due to Joshua's response?

[EUOL]

KINGS has been sidelined in favor of MISTBORN.  It'll probably be five or six years before we see any OATHSHARDS books in the stores.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Nice blog update. Heh heh.

Brandon, someday you'll have to write a magic-slinging chariot duel.

Mistborn is definitely a lot of FUN.

[EUOL]

Heh.  Ben Hur.  Ben was off with a Her for a good chunk of the night....

Anyway....today, Joshua said he honestly thought he'd never read anything that compared to my Allomancy battles in MISTBORN.  I found that encouraging.

[stacer]

Speaking of your blog, you've spelled "genre" as "genera" once.

[EUOL]

Odd.  My spellchecker accepts both as valid spellings.  I guess I should be consistent, but that's why I didn't notice it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"genera" is the plural of "genus," and while genus and genre are nearly the same in meaning, they typically apply to different fields and do have distinctions. "Genre" is the literary term. "Genus" is more biological, though admittedly either can be more general use, so technically your usage wasn't wrong, per se. Just very atypical. And, as you said, inconsistant

[stacer]

So EUOL, I'm writing a biography of Frederick Douglass today, and I found this quote that made me think of city skaa vs. plantation skaa.

[A]t the age of eight, he was sent to Baltimore. City slavery was less oppressive than plantation slavery, the former offering far more "elbow room." "A city slave," wrote Douglass, "is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on the plantation." "Going to Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. (from Encyclopedia of Black America ed. Low and Clift)

[EUOL]

So...I need this back, wherever it is.  It's time for the 4.0 revision.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

dibs on an e-copy of the revision.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I had Brenna pass it onto Old One - did it get to you?

[Oldie Black Witch]

Thanks, Fuzzy. It's at the Pub. I'll go get it in a few minutes.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Brandon,
I've read it, and I'm planning on adding a few more comments. I'll get it to you tomorrow, assuming you're going to be at class.

[EUOL]

Thank you very much.