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Rothfuss held another AMA on Reddit, and instead of having a prepared statement like his oh so clever conversation with himself last time, he told people to Google it when they asked about the third book, and then complained that the AMA felt dead.
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Torrannor posted:That's my thought exactly. His "Final Book" turned out to be three separate books after all, because neither he nor Brandon Sanderson could fit the climax of the series into just one book. I can't see how Rothfuss will manage this with Doors of Stone. Jordan actually put out his books on a good schedule for most of the series. Near the end I think he slowed down as things started getting messy with the pacing, and then he, you know, died. But he was good at turning out near 1k page books every couple of years for like a decade
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Nov 26, 2015 16:44
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Aquarium Gravel posted:Rothfuss held another AMA on Reddit, and instead of having a prepared statement like his oh so clever conversation with himself last time, he told people to Google it when they asked about the third book, and then complained that the AMA felt dead. Something Rothfuss wrote was a depressing let down you say? 
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Nov 26, 2015 17:12
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"Just read Lord of the Rings again, you fuckers." Just read Lord of the Rings again, you fuckers.
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Nov 26, 2015 22:11
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Benson Cunningham posted:Looks like old man Roth did an AMA on reddit. It's fairly depressing to read. His tone jumps back and forth between depression and outrage at the world. lol
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Nov 27, 2015 20:12
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Benson Cunningham posted:Looks like old man Roth did an AMA on reddit. It's fairly depressing to read. His tone jumps back and forth between depression and outrage at the world.  I just assumed he fucks with the charity meter.
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Nov 27, 2015 23:02
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Dienes posted:
Or he's being jerked off by the same people who enjoyed his novella. lol
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Nov 28, 2015 02:00
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Dienes posted:
Jesus loving christ
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Nov 28, 2015 13:35
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If anyone wants to know why a majority of us are still here, it's because watching a man devolve into insanity is really entertaining.
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Nov 28, 2015 22:50
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Benson Cunningham posted:If anyone wants to know why a majority of us are still here, it's because watching a man devolve into insanity is really entertaining. him freaking out about the fallout 4 distress signal where the mom and kid were already dead for 100 years and shutting off stream was so good. give me more.
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Nov 28, 2015 23:02
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picklefish posted:him freaking out about the fallout 4 distress signal where the mom and kid were already dead for 100 years and shutting off stream was so good. give me more. Was he freaking out because it was better writing than anything he's ever published?
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Nov 28, 2015 23:43
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picklefish posted:him freaking out about the fallout 4 distress signal where the mom and kid were already dead for 100 years and shutting off stream was so good. give me more. I pulled up a few videos of the stream. His mouth hangs open more than Jon Snow. Edit: He also bitches so much the entire time about the writing and story of the game I'm suspecting the people 'howling' for book three are selecting Fallout 4 to punish him. Dienes fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Nov 29, 2015 01:13
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Maybe he was just dumbfounded that the writing for FO4 is going to be about the same that he did/is doing for the new Torment game.
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Nov 29, 2015 01:46
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Evil Fluffy posted:Was he freaking out because it was better writing than anything he's ever published? pakman posted:Maybe he was just dumbfounded that the writing for FO4 is going to be about the same that he did/is doing for the new Torment game.
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Nov 29, 2015 12:01
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pakman posted:Maybe he was just dumbfounded that the writing for FO4 is going to be about the same that he did/is doing for the new Torment game. 
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Nov 29, 2015 13:35
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http://www.twitch.tv/patrickrothfuss "Patrick Rothfuss streams Writing Book Three - Dec 3rd." Edit: whoops. he literally turned off stream within a minute of me posting this.
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Dec 4, 2015 02:22
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picklefish posted:http://www.twitch.tv/patrickrothfuss "Patrick Rothfuss streams Writing Book Three - Dec 3rd." I like how it went from "Writing book 3 versus Fallout 4" to "Fallout 4 versus something besides Fallout 4."
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Dec 5, 2015 18:14
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Dienes posted:I like how it went from "Writing book 3 versus Fallout 4" to "Fallout 4 versus something besides Fallout 4." Writings hard man
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Dec 5, 2015 18:30
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I skimmed the video of his Writing Book 3 stream...from what I can gather it's a video of his teacup for two hours. He started the "game or write" donation contest on November 12 and December 3 was the first time Book got more donations than Fallout, but after the two hour "whoops I can't put anything worth showing on camera" stream that evening it switched to Fallout vs Anything But & it's been a closer matchup. I just binged through Rothfuss' work in the past couple weeks. It wasn't perfect but I really enjoyed all of it, and I didn't have nearly the issues everyone in here did with the main hangups (sex ninjas, boning of Felurian).
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Dec 9, 2015 22:01
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oldskool posted:I skimmed the video of his Writing Book 3 stream...from what I can gather it's a video of his teacup for two hours. Hey if you're into sex ninjas and don't mind nonsensical plot points (A literal sex god can't tell that Kvothe is a virgin), they are easy easy to read.
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Dec 9, 2015 22:57
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Hey all, Pat found yet another thing to do that's not writing his bad book: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1439433
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Dec 10, 2015 01:18
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Lottery of Babylon posted:It's not that it's taking a long time to finish the book, it's that it's taking a long time to finish the book by the standards he set for himself. why do you care though?
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Dec 10, 2015 01:34
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Because we're allowed to care about whatever the gently caress we want for basically any reason. Murica.
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Dec 10, 2015 02:45
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To many folks it's a situation where he can't make the right move no matter what. If he released it in a timely manner, he'd be accused of rushing it and maybe he should have spent more time editing that old manuscript etc etc. But instead he's taking his time and that also draws scorn even tho plenty of authors have their own little side projects too. There's no winning move.
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Dec 13, 2015 14:32
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Oh, we're fully expecting it to be poo poo even if he takes his time.
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Dec 13, 2015 15:35
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No, I'm pretty sure that we are past the point where we can accuse him of rushing. Also it's hilarious of you think he's had a manuscript all this time.
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Dec 13, 2015 15:43
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Name of the wind was published in March 2007. It was billed as the first of a trilogy. The author made statements to the effect of the whole series being complete, only needing some editing. It is December 2015. "Why are people whining about the book not being released?" Why indeed.
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Dec 13, 2015 15:54
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Dienes posted:No, I'm pretty sure that we are past the point where we can accuse him of rushing. I'm sure he's had some manner of first draft kicking around since the beginning. By his own admission he's basically scrapped it and started from the bare framework though. It's like George Lucas and Star Wars. You can go back through a solid half dozen early story treatments that came before what actually became the 1977 smash hit.
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Dec 13, 2015 15:58
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jivjov posted:It's like George Lucas and Star Wars. It is. They're both insufferable fools who read too many of their own press clippings. Authors delaying and taking forever to deliver books is not a new thing. What gets under people's skin is that he has a heavy social media presence and every time they wonder when his next book is going to come out they find evidence of him clowning, working on side projects, doing AMAs on reddit without having anything to say about the third book, and snidely insulting people that don't rush to shower money on his charities. He just always comes off as being a condescending dick.
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Dec 13, 2015 21:03
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He also is under no obligation to work on his book 24/7. He's allowed to do things, even online/social media things, that are not "writing the third Kingkiller book"
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Dec 13, 2015 21:07
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jivjov posted:He also is under no obligation to work on his book 24/7. He's allowed to do things, even online/social media things, that are not "writing the third Kingkiller book" People are also allowed to bitch about it.
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Dec 13, 2015 21:11
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Andrast posted:People are also allowed to bitch about it. Bitch about the guy keeping regular job hours on his profession? Sure. But it just makes you seem like as big an rear end as Rothfuss is accused of being.
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Dec 13, 2015 21:17
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jivjov posted:Bitch about the guy keeping regular job hours on his profession? Sure. But it just makes you seem like as big an rear end as Rothfuss is accused of being. Sounds like Rothfuss is really bad at time management if he can't get a single book out in four years while working regular job hours on it.
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Dec 13, 2015 21:21
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jivjov posted:He also is under no obligation to work on his book 24/7. He's allowed to do things, even online/social media things, that are not "writing the third Kingkiller book" As far as his publisher is concerned he may actually be contractually obligated to deliver the third book on some kind of timeline but I wouldn't know. As far as I'm concerned he's not obligated to do anything and I could not care less whether he ever finishes it. I get more entertainment out of seeing examples of his narcissistic personality disorder trickle into this thread than I could ever get out of reading the third book.
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Diamir posted:As far as his publisher is concerned he may actually be contractually obligated to deliver the third book on some kind of timeline but I wouldn't know. As far as I'm concerned he's not obligated to do anything and I could not care less whether he ever finishes it. I get more entertainment out of seeing examples of his narcissistic personality disorder trickle into this thread than I could ever get out of reading the third book. I think if he is soliciting donations with promises of a book, he probably should deliver the book at some point.
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Andrast posted:Sounds like Rothfuss is really bad at time management if he can't get a single book out in four years while working regular job hours on it. The maths behind this is fascinating by the way. DISCLAIMER - This is art, so obviously these formulas are meaningless in the grand scheme of things. But they might give you a little insight into how bad at time management he could be. Also, as I point out, the man runs a charity. Hes a good person. Doesn't change... THE MATHS Assume that our subject Mr. P. Rothfuss writes full time 5 days a week. Assume for now that he takes no time off at all and works the job all year round. In march 2016 He will have been working on this book for a whole five years. Lets disregard the fact that he claims to have written some of this before WMF was released. Name of the Wind is 259, 000 words long. Wise Mans Fear is 399,000 words long. In order to write 259,000 words in five years he would have to produce the equivalent of 4,317 edited words in a month. 399,000 words would be 6,650 edited words a month. Just for fun, assuming DoS is a behemoth at 800,000 words would require 13,334 edited words per month. But the man has a family and runs a charity. Lets knock off two months every year and assume he works full time ten months of the year. To write 259,000 words in five years with charity and holiday he would need to write 5,180 edited words a month. 399,000 would be 7,980 edited words a month. 800,000 words would be 16,000 edited words a month. For comparison - successful participants of NaNoWriMo manage to write 50,000 unedited words in a month (about 1,667 a day) on top of their normal jobs. I've done this once. These are unedited of course. Just for fun, assuming he wrote at a pace equivalent of NaNoWriMo for ten months of the year for the five years he would have written 2.5 million unedited words by march 2016.
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Dec 13, 2015 22:07
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If his publisher wasn't cool with him taking his time on the last book, then they'd have forced his hand by now.
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Dec 13, 2015 22:35
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Andrast posted:Sounds like Rothfuss is really bad at time management if he can't get a single book out in four years while working regular job hours on it. Heck, he released *a* book last year!
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Dec 13, 2015 22:36
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Srice posted:Heck, he released *a* book last year! And we all wish he'd spent that time playing fallout instead
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Lottery of Babylon posted:And we all wish he'd spent that time playing fallout instead To be honest I wish that whenever I masturbated I ended up with a book that I could sell.
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