pentyne posted:

I guess book three would take longer if he was writing it one-handed.

Evil Fluffy posted:

It's like Tommy Boy only instead of being a goofy lovable idiot who sells brake pads he's a a lucky hack who convinced a bunch of idiots that his garbage novel is good

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Brandon Starkerson
Posted January 25, 2020 at 1:06 PM

20 comments. Wow. There used to be literally HUNDREDS of comments immediately after any of his blog posts. You know, a DECADE AGO…

The dream is dead. It appears that folks have finally realized that Pat has retired a wealthy man. We got two cool books, and THIS is how the story ends. Not with a bang, but with nothing at all. Not even a whimper.

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scott lynchester
Posted January 26, 2020 at 10:34 AM

I don’t know if you noticed but at the end of the year he was soooo active regarding his charity, asking people to donate more and more but at the end, no christmas wishing, no happy new year, no thank you for the contribution.. nothing, not a whisper… so yeah, i feel you Starkerson but i still have hope, slim but hope nonetheless i know, i’m a fool

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Ozweepay Johnson
Posted January 29, 2020 at 2:54 PM

Finish your loving book, you twat-pus asswipe.

Captain Hotbutt posted:

Rothfarts blog brings the heat.

Solice Kirsk posted:

The best thing he's written was the Bast short story.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

I dispute this idea of a "best thing" written by Rothfuss.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

I dispute this idea of a "best thing" written by Rothfuss.

BananaNutkins posted:

My favorite Rothfuss thing is the author's intro to Slow Regard of Silent Things. It needs to be chiseled into stone. Look upon the cringe, ye mighty, and despair.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Never read it, but that's where he basically says "if you don't like this then you're a simpleton who can't appreciate what I'm doing" right?

Patrick Rothfuss Reviewing Doors of Stone on Goodreads in 2012 posted:

While it's nice to see folks out there giving this book five stars, and in some cases even reviewing it, I'll admit that I'm kinda puzzled.

After thinking it over for a while, I've realized there's only one explanation for this:

Time travelers love my books.

This is strangely reassuring, as it lets me know that, eventually, I do finish my revisions, and the book turns out good enough so that I still have a following out there in the big ball of wibbly-wobbly.... timey-wimey.... stuff that I like to think of as the future.

I would also like to say, future readers, that I appreciate your taking time to read and review my books. It's really flattering knowing that even with time-travel technology at your disposal, you'd rather read my stuff and mention it here on goodreads, rather than, say, hunt dinosaurs, get drunk with da Vinci, or pants Hitler.

Secondly, I'd like to say if you're The Doctor, and you're reading this, I would make an excellent traveling companion. I know you normally tend to hang out with pretty young women and robot dogs. And honestly? I respect that.

Still, I bring certain things to the table. Humor, witty banter, and a beard that will allow me to blend in seamlessly with any pre-industrial Germanic culture. I'm also an excellent kisser and play a mean game of Settlers of Catan.

Just throwing it out there.

Lastly, if any of you happen to have a digital copy of the book you'd like to e-mail me, I'd really appreciate it. I'd love to see the five-star version of the book, because right now, the one I'm toiling away at is about a three an a half-in my opinion. It would save me a lot of work if I could just skip to the end and publish it.

Sincerely yours,

pat

Captain Hotbutt posted:

stuff that's gonna make me vomit

Captain Hotbutt posted:

Relax Or DIE posted:

let's dig into the fact that Rothfuss believes himself to be an excellent kisser

Patware posted:

"this has been a fantastic episode on revision. we have shown you an excellent example of something that needs to be revised and an excellent example of what you sound like when you try to avoid revising it because you're too up your own rear end"

Patware posted:

in the podcast he mentions one of his techniques is to break a chapter into scenes (no poo poo?) and then break a scene into french scenes (wow it's almost like you're writing!) and then figure out the actual purpose of the scenes (at this stage in the game?) to make sure he's not being too useless for too long

and he mentions having to cut something down because he wrote ten scenes in a row with their only purpose being

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"Shows that Kvothe is smart and cool."

Doctor Faustine posted:

I find this wildly difficult to believe, what with that scraggly-rear end beard of his.

Relax Or DIE posted:

I imagine nothing enhances an expert kiss like a steady rain of the crumbs of meals past onto your bosom

Patware posted:

in the podcast he mentions one of his techniques is to break a chapter into scenes (no poo poo?) and then break a scene into french scenes (wow it's almost like you're writing!) and then figure out the actual purpose of the scenes (at this stage in the game?) to make sure he's not being too useless for too long

and he mentions having to cut something down because he wrote ten scenes in a row with their only purpose being

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"Shows that Kvothe is smart and cool."

hallelujah posted:

what is a french scene

Patware posted:

A French scene is denoted by a character either entering or leaving mid-scene. Like say five people are in the room, one person leaves, that scene now contains two French scenes. If a pair of people then walk in some time later, you have three French scenes.

Basically it's dividing scenes by the actual people on-scene than like changing time or place. I don't know the etymology of calling it a French scene and I've never met anyone who used the term in anything other than insider discussion about writing that wasn't really obnoxious.