Timewaster's Guide Archive

When you were talking about the "bookends of the novels", I thought about how cool it would be to have a Vin and Elend bookend set, or a Vin and Ore'seur bookend set. And as I'm sure other people have, I've thought hundreds of times about making a mistcloak.

I think that everybody's different in how much they remember of a fight.  Some people's brains work so that they remember everything, and other people's brains block what happened.  I've only ever been in one fight in my life, and I can remember the details, and the feeling, and I know I wasn't focused on anything except ending the smack talk, but I can remember exactly what happened, down to exactly where it was.

Whenever I'm suffering from writers' block, I find that the most effective way to fix it is to grab my iPod, put on some nice instrumental music, and either lie down in a dark room and just sit there and think, or take a walk around some unknown part of town and, again, think.

I don't know about you people, but I'm just content to wait four weeks to find out.

I really loved Lightsong.  Other than the Vasher chapters, the lightsong chapters were some of my favorites.  I agree with everybody who's said that a little more rebeliousness would be good.  That would truly perfect his character, in my opinion.

I was also reading about when Kelsier asked Sazed about the Valla, and how the religion lasted so long because their leaders had been martyred, and he didn't ask about anything else.  Brandon confirmed my theory in the annotations, when he basically said that Kelsier was trying to get historical proof that his plan would work.

(...Oh, sandman, wherefore art thou?)

Wherefore means why.

I'd probably have to say that Warbreaker, as far as I've gotten (I just finished chapter 46), barely beats Mistborn.  On the topic of Mistborn, I have to agree with Chaos.  The Final Empire is better than Well of Ascenscion, but WoA is stil pretty good.  In Warbreaker, I have to say I love the sense that there's always something I'm not understanding about some characters, like Denth, and it's harder to pick out than the relationship between Eragon and Murtagh in Paolini's Inheritance (which I figured out a month before Eldest), and I'm still left wondering about a lot of other things.  Now, as much as I would love to stick around and discuss the works of one of the most amazing authors of our time, Microsoft Word is calling, and I find it extremely hard to resist.

How's mine?  It's festive and recognizable.