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Knowing about Nightblood from Warbreaker before the climax of Oathbringer is nice but not necessary. Other than that scene every other connection is just an optional reference or callback.
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Dec 16, 2019 23:03
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Just read the last chapter of Words of Radiance: So what's the deal with Dalinar's dream of warm light? The Stormfather confirms it is not a vision, at least not one of his. I looked up the re-read on Tor.com and they had some WoB spoiler: WoB says that the last chapter of the SA has already been seen in one of these two books (thank you, zad-man, for finding that for me!!). Does this seem a likely candidate? I’d suggest that it may be a preview of Dalinar moving from the Cognitive realm to Beyond. On the other hand, last week STBLST suggested the Fleet scene or Taln arriving at Kholinar. Of those, I think the former is more likely. Do you have other suggestions? Not sure what STBLST is, but either way... Definitely an interesting chapter 
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Dec 17, 2019 15:44
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Sab669 posted:Just read the last chapter of Words of Radiance: i think the two answers are "no one knows" and also "go read oathbringer lol"
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Dec 17, 2019 15:52
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Yea, probably  I think I'm going to take a break to read Starsight, though. That way I'll finish OB closer to when SA4 drops
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Dec 17, 2019 15:57
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annual state of the sanderson is up https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2019/
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Dec 19, 2019 22:25
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I'm so excited to see the Way of Kings leatherbound. Also really looking forward to learning more about Death By Pizza / Songs of the Dead
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Dec 19, 2019 23:50
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Tunicate posted:annual state of the sanderson is up lol sanderson now suggests that the cosmere books will be complete (optimistically) when he is 74
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Dec 19, 2019 23:51
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eke out posted:lol sanderson now suggests that the cosmere books will be complete (optimistically) when he is 74 That would be if he continued at his current pace. If he offloads some of the side projects into collaborative efforts, he can focus solely on Cosmere stuff and speed that up.
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Dec 20, 2019 00:06
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Daric posted:That would be if he continued at his current pace. If he offloads some of the side projects into collaborative efforts, he can focus solely on Cosmere stuff and speed that up. yeah i just thought that was funny - as you say, his point was more "I'll be 74, so clearly I might need to change some priorities around somewhat to finish it sooner"
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Dec 20, 2019 00:28
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I like that his blog post recap of his year is like 10,000 words. The guy can't stop writing and I really appreciate it.
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Dec 20, 2019 00:40
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quote:STORMLIGHT CHILDREN’S BOOK This kind of spin-off interests me greatly. Would love to see more aspects of the setting from an in-universe folklore perspective.
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Dec 20, 2019 00:58
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Tunicate posted:annual state of the sanderson is up Starsight: I needed some downtime after fine finishing Stormlight, so I wrote this book. He does more work in his downtime than I do in my every day life.
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Dec 20, 2019 06:08
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Him talking about Skyward and TV has me excited.
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Dec 20, 2019 08:16
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The art he posted for the Stormlight card game is incredibly cool!
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Dec 20, 2019 16:33
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Xenix posted:The art he posted for the Stormlight card game is incredibly cool! Extremely! I love them all but I really like this one:  Also the little girl cosplaying as Doomslug is all kinds of adorable.
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Dec 20, 2019 16:46
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That scene looks good, but isn't it Dalinar and Venli when Odium is breaking into the vision Dalinar pulled her into? She doesn't look much like a parsh to me...
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Dec 21, 2019 06:01
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eke out posted:yeah i just thought that was funny - as you say, his point was more "I'll be 74, so clearly I might need to change some priorities around somewhat to finish it sooner" Has anyone ever asked him if the worst were to happen (hit by a bus, car crash, terminal illness, etc) would he allow another author to finish the Cosmere like Jordan did with WoT?
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Dec 22, 2019 00:57
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insider posted:Has anyone ever asked him if the worst were to happen (hit by a bus, car crash, terminal illness, etc) would he allow another author to finish the Cosmere like Jordan did with WoT? The fact he can estimate how long it would take him to finish the whole thing at least points to him having notes/an outline for the whole thing. Means the odds are better than most authors.
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Dec 22, 2019 01:07
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The fact he can estimate how long it would take him to finish the whole thing at least points to him having notes/an outline for the whole thing. Means the odds are better than most authors. Well maybe? Or he is a robot who writes at a predetermined rate and will never stop.
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Dec 22, 2019 01:14
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insider posted:Has anyone ever asked him if the worst were to happen (hit by a bus, car crash, terminal illness, etc) would he allow another author to finish the Cosmere like Jordan did with WoT? Yeah he's got contingencies in place
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Dec 22, 2019 01:30
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Xenix posted:That scene looks good, but isn't it Dalinar and Venli when Odium is breaking into the vision Dalinar pulled her into? She doesn't look much like a parsh to me... That's from Edgedancer when Lift and Nale have their confrontation in the weird canyon city.
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Dec 22, 2019 05:30
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Tunicate posted:annual state of the sanderson is up Guy puts more work in to a yearly update than GRRM and Rothfuss put in to their decade overdue books yet those two still get treated seriously. Though at least ASOIAF has ended, even If GRRM wasn’t the one to do it. Evil Fluffy fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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Dec 22, 2019 17:33
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Evil Fluffy posted:Guy puts more work in to a yearly update than GRRM and Rothfuss put in to their decade overdue books yet those two still get treated seriously. Though at least ASOIAF has ended, eve. If GRRM wasn’t the one to do it. Eh we saw the outline
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Dec 22, 2019 17:34
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Evil Fluffy posted:Guy puts more work in to a yearly update than GRRM and Rothfuss put in to their decade overdue books yet those two still get treated seriously. Though at least ASOIAF has ended, eve. If GRRM wasn’t the one to do it. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sanderson's clearly used hemalurgic spikes on those two to steal their writing powers.
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Dec 22, 2019 18:55
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Sab669 posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sanderson's clearly used hemalurgic spikes on those two to steal their writing powers. It doesn't matter how many zeroes you add to an eight, it's still an eight.
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Dec 26, 2019 04:43
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Sab669 posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sanderson's clearly used hemalurgic spikes on those two to steal their writing powers.  https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/1211959143541563392 https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/1211921125271191553
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Dec 31, 2019 13:59
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Dude is a machine. Like any machine, planning is the most important step. The more planning, the more efficient he becomes.
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Dec 31, 2019 17:58
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I suspect having people assist with continuity and the universe help, because he seems to be the perfect opposite of GRRM. I'm actually floored by that tweet, that is absolutely insane speed. I was thinking the other day about how his current plan for finishing the series can't possibly work out because everything is only getting more and more intertwined between the novels, but holy poo poo maybe not---maybe he can pull it off, as long as he doesn't start too many new series every year.
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Dec 31, 2019 19:46
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I love the fact that "writing too many other books" is a problem we have to worry about from him
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Dec 31, 2019 19:51
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Some people deal with writers block by blaming the NFL or moving to a new house, and don't write for years. Sanderson just writes more books, seemingly for fun at this point
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Dec 31, 2019 19:56
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He wrote about 1/5th of a normal-sized novel in a single day. I've been writing for 20 years, and if I push myself to 2,000 words, the intense thinking leaves me with an awful migraine. L. Ron Hubbard and Michael Moorcock used to write like Sanderson, but Sanderson's quality is way higher.
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jesus, putting hubbard and moorcock in the same breath like that?
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He's also put the progress bar for Stormlight 4 Draft 2.0 - and it's already set to 40%. Time to start my third reread from the very beginning!
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Leng posted:He's also put the progress bar for Stormlight 4 Draft 2.0 - and it's already set to 40%. Time to start my third reread from the very beginning! What? How?
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With Stormlight books being so big, I believe he sends each chunk off to his alpha readers as he gets them done, then revises when he gets comments back. This makes sense, since they are effectively a standard trilogy in one book. If you've been following along the OB reread on Tor, the last update in 2019 mentioned the beta read of Stormlight 4 will be kicking off in late Jan or so - which will proceed similarly. He's also posted that he typically does 3 drafts and a final polish, with the first draft taking the same amount of time as drafts 2 & 3 and the final polish take together. So yeah, that November publication date is pretty accurate!
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Slanderer posted:Some people deal with writers block by blaming the NFL or moving to a new house, and don't write for years. Sanderson just writes more books, seemingly for fun at this point I actually watched a few interviews with him on youtube recently and think I have him figured out. Essentially while normal people get a 'rush' from drugs, alcohol, gambling, sports, etc. he gets a rush from writing stories. So once he gets to the 'avalanche' parts he is like a crack fiend and can push out crazy words per hour.
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insider posted:I actually watched a few interviews with him on youtube recently and think I have him figured out. Essentially while normal people get a 'rush' from drugs, alcohol, gambling, sports, etc. he gets a rush from writing stories. So once he gets to the 'avalanche' parts he is like a crack fiend and can push out crazy words per hour. As is anyone else reading those parts.
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Only about a third of the way through Starsight, and I know this isn't accurate at all but I basically picture the Kitsen like the Nibblonians from Futurama. Not loving the book so far, but then I didn't really like Skyward until the end either so I'm still hopeful this will improve. But dang I am just not a fan of M-Bot, or any "You organic lifeforms are so confusing!" AI kind of character, I think.
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Sab669 posted:But dang I am just not a fan of M-Bot, or any "You organic lifeforms are so confusing!" AI kind of character, I think. 
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