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Adapt it into a TV show and have it follow the books pretty closely until he gets to The University, then start sprinkling in scenes were Kvothe isn't present, or not the focus, and slowly reveal that he's pretty loathed/barely tolerated Basically, an extended rehash of that one episode of 30 Rock where Lemon thought she was shy and everyone hated her in high school when in reality she was cruelly mean and everyone rightfully disliked her
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 01:31 |
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# ? Jun 13, 2024 06:37 |
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- “He told me this long, dumb story about how he blew everyone away at an open mic night.” - “Ohhh gawd, he told you that story too??”
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 02:37 |
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Trying to keep track of talents is a fool's errand, as their worth is is "2 talents will pay for literally anything needed for the plot".
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 08:29 |
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Kchama posted:Trying to keep track of talents is a fool's errand, as their worth is is "2 talents will pay for literally anything needed for the plot". The talents make the plot thicken like clouds flowing over an audible sunset. I am genuinely sad that there is not a let's read in the style of Oh John Ringo, No! of these.
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 12:16 |
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Yeah I think BotL's reads were in the previous thread? They were pretty interesting. While I was writing a fantasy book I would sometimes look at his critiques of Name of the Wind to remind me what not to do. Of course i'm sure he would hate what I wrote as well, he's a fan only of extremely highbrow stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk This place would be more entertaining if he hadn't been banned, but he pisses off too many people haha
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# ? Feb 18, 2023 23:16 |
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The guy who did the thread on the Twilight books sadly passed away this month.
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# ? Feb 21, 2023 11:22 |
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Scholtz posted:Adapt it into a TV show and have it follow the books pretty closely until he gets to The University, then start sprinkling in scenes were Kvothe isn't present, or not the focus, and slowly reveal that he's pretty loathed/barely tolerated Just keep the focus on him because it'll still show how much of an insufferable little poo poo he is while he's being oblivious to it, though you'd have to call it out because a lot of the audience won't get it otherwise. Like in his initial interactions with Ambrose he was mostly if not entirely in the wrong and Ambrose had every reason to give zero fucks about what some random kid he's never met before says, let alone the demands being made by said child. Like when you're being worse than a lazy Haughty Young Noble stereotype*, you're pretty bad. Not as bad as the writer who doesn't even realize they keep making their cool awesome protagonist come across as the most entitled little rear end in a top hat possible. * excluding that Kvothe's mom is a runaway noble and that the Ruh were basically the equivalent of nobles among traveling communities themselves.
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# ? Feb 21, 2023 19:14 |
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Nah just do Doogie Houser, wizard md and go full ape on the young kid who totally rules wizard academy and is a bastard on the lute and totally fucks college girls and fairy queens and ninjas, and his crush is a smoking hot escort who he eventually convinces to wave her poon only for him, but plot twist the king wants to bang her, and the king is Kvothe's Draco from middle school, but Kvothe makes the king his bitch by unleashing all of fairy hell on his kingdom and stabbing him through the dick with his twilight blade that says *sad* when gently plucked. Make it dirty as hell. I'd watch the crap out of that and so would America
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 05:31 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Just keep the focus on him because it'll still show how much of an insufferable little poo poo he is while he's being oblivious to it, though you'd have to call it out because a lot of the audience won't get it otherwise. Like in his initial interactions with Ambrose he was mostly if not entirely in the wrong and Ambrose had every reason to give zero fucks about what some random kid he's never met before says, let alone the demands being made by said child. Like when you're being worse than a lazy Haughty Young Noble stereotype*, you're pretty bad. Not as bad as the writer who doesn't even realize they keep making their cool awesome protagonist come across as the most entitled little rear end in a top hat possible. There's a lot of reasons why I think that Kvothe was intended to be older, and that's one of them. Rothfuss had to work in that "graduated from the academy younger than anyone else had been let in" or whatever. Like, does anyone actually treat him as the kid that he is? He's like 15 years old, but everyone treats him like he's 20. Also Denna is suppose to be his age but her entire thing suggests she's the same age as the college kids.
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 05:52 |
Turns out that kvothe is actually just broke all the time because of "escorts", and "sex ninjas". Kvothe is just too much of an prude to accept sex work as a part of societal labor structures and must be practically a Mormon on how he spins his sins.
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 23:15 |
Scene- Bast speaking to "The Window Creel", night time. "Your scheme is growing more precarious each week. Why did I even join you here. Kote? This meek idiot? He's five years too young and doesn't have an adventurous bone in his body" she spoke with a slap rage as she tapped a single finger upon her red lips. "Enough lines up, and were running out of time. He was in the city at the same time you were. He's got red hair, you love red hair!" Bast trilled "As an urchin! Not my type in the slightest, you and Scarpi may be masters of story craft but how do you spin that!?" "Don't worry about it, leave the molding to me. Just write, and just sing. We've got an expert on the way, though he doesn't know the importance of name recognition in this whole process." "You are a fool and you're wasting the time of all of us. We can still fix this, we can shelter ourselves from the worst of this idiocy" "You're the one who captured his heart and brought her wrath on the rest of the realm! You agreed to this months ago. You know you can't walk away. You are a personal affront to her, and she won't stop until you join the bloody piles in her revenge. The boundaries are too loose now, distance means nothing!" "His 'rise' is from urchin to innkeepeer! You are having me make masterpiece from stray cobwebs! No one will buy the new tale, it won't stick!" "Better this than death, we all know it will only be a few months before we either need a sacrifice or a living Kvothe" They stared at each other. A sullen standoff. The small cottage laid in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The loud part was the simple still air between them. A tension, a disagreement. Their camaraderie was lacking, threadbare and one of convenience at best. If there had been a bottle of wine, or a hearth and comfortable chairs, their silence would have been washed away with the mundane complaints of those under stress. Inside the house was nothing but the necessities. This austarity added a second silence. It was a small miserable silence of those used to plenty finding themselves without and without an authority to complain too. The third silence was an easy thing to notice. If you listened for an hour your ears would bleed from it's weight. It was in the empty table that laid between them. It was shouting from the lack of tea or cakes. It was in the guest rights proffered with all the warmth of a legal scroll. The third silence was hers, just as the tiny house and the apocalypse were hers. It was a shallow and vain silence. It was the impatient scream of someone who hosed up royally. (The widow creel is a totally subtle)actually not imagined Denna M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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# ? Feb 22, 2023 23:57 |
Let me workshop that Tehlu knows it's more than rothfuss had done this decade M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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# ? Feb 23, 2023 00:05 |
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Ai patrick rothfuss posted:
Wanted to see if we should expect chat gpt to finish the trilogy . Threw in some hog warts as well.
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# ? Feb 26, 2023 04:49 |
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getting AI to finish abandoned books would basically be the funniest, and therefore best, use-case
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# ? Feb 26, 2023 05:10 |
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Patty Roth hasn't blogged in a year, nor tweeted the past few months. Maybe he is pounding out pages for The Doors of Stone?
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# ? May 10, 2023 03:39 |
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He has apparently holed up in a hotel and is determined to finish it! He recently posted this sneak peek.
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# ? May 10, 2023 04:20 |
Probably spending all his time with lawyers making sure he doesn't get piledriven for his charity scam
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# ? May 10, 2023 04:37 |
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Probably spent a few hours with ChatGPT, got frustrated it wouldn't write his book for him, and went back to gaming.
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# ? May 10, 2023 20:58 |
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He’s announced the new book!
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# ? May 18, 2023 20:17 |
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He knows what he's done. why not just focus on one thing instead of trying to do another thing!
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# ? May 18, 2023 20:26 |
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lol what a bloated and self-aggrandizing way of announcing you're still not working on the thing everyone wants you to be working on
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# ? May 18, 2023 20:35 |
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It's not even a new book. It's a 'reimagining' of his short-story The Lightning Tree that was released in the Rogues anthology. Basically it's a longer version with illustrations, a lot like how A Slow Regard came out of a different short story.
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# ? May 18, 2023 20:37 |
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quote:This entry was posted in book covers, cool news, Nathan Taylor Art. By Pat ell oh loving ell
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# ? May 18, 2023 21:04 |
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that Anthony Bourdain segment from The Big Short about re-using old halibut is paying dividends again
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# ? May 18, 2023 22:16 |
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Part 2: Cookies and Communication (That’s right, not only a scene break. I’m giving it a subtitle, too.) Anyone waiting on tenterhooks for book three should be forced to read this, over and over like sisyphus and the rock
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# ? May 18, 2023 22:25 |
wrong book fatrick
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# ? May 18, 2023 22:56 |
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Fatrick Slothfuss
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# ? May 19, 2023 00:29 |
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Master Prose Artist P. Rothfuss posted:While at first it seems that Bast must be master of this tiny domain, but while he cares nothing for the laws of man, there are older, deeper laws that bind him.
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# ? May 19, 2023 03:39 |
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a law in three parts
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# ? May 19, 2023 03:44 |
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Hughmoris posted:Patty Roth hasn't blogged in a year, nor tweeted the past few months. Maybe he is pounding out pages for The Doors of Stone? Well, I was right that he was writing a book. Just not the one that would make logical sense to write next.
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# ? May 19, 2023 03:56 |
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I don't think it's necessarily grammatically incorrect but boy is it clunky as gently caress.
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# ? May 19, 2023 04:58 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:I don't think it's necessarily grammatically incorrect but boy is it clunky as gently caress. It's both. It's grammatically incorrect because the "While it seems [...], but [...]" construction it uses is wrong; it should have either the "while" or the "but", not both. It's clunky because it not only fucks that up but also nests a second "while" inside the first one.
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# ? May 19, 2023 06:53 |
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The very next sentence's grammar is all hosed up too:Patry Kvothefuss, Poetical Prosesmith posted:And for all his cleverness, Bast finds himself trapped in ways he has never experienced before, and make hard choices and help an enemy. There are basic subject-verb agreement errors here, but the sentence seems borked even beyond that, like half of it was hastily rewritten and the other half never got the memo.
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# ? May 19, 2023 07:14 |
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Patrick Rothfuss posted:When I was first published. I thought communicating with folks online would be easy. I post an update, everyone reads it. Easy peasy. Right? Maybe spend 10 hours writing the book. I'm sure he's grieving, but it's absolutely pathetic to use your dad's health as an excuse for why you've spent a decade procrastinating. ESPECIALLY in the announcement for you starting an entirely different project! I guess you're not actually that torn up about it if you can find the time for a new novella.
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# ? May 19, 2023 15:28 |
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It's unfortunate he still hasn't been, and likely never will be, prosecuted for charitable fraud.
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# ? May 19, 2023 15:35 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:The very next sentence's grammar is all hosed up too: That reads like something I'd write and I'm awful at writing! I'm sure I use 99% of punctuation wrong.
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# ? May 19, 2023 16:20 |
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On the one hand, I am extremely glad that we are not actually being subjected to what would undoubtedly be an extremely painful-to-read and infuriatingly overly-successful third volume of the Khronicles, but on the other hand … what the gently caress does he do all day?? A decade of being completely unproductive would drive me to suicidal despair, and I’m not even an “artist“. I thought it was a universal thing that human beings need to be active, or their mental and physical health collapse.
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# ? May 19, 2023 16:21 |
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Chicken Butt posted:but on the other hand … what the gently caress does he do all day?? Lawrence : Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's broke, don't do poo poo.
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Chicken Butt posted:On the one hand, I am extremely glad that we are not actually being subjected to what would undoubtedly be an extremely painful-to-read and infuriatingly overly-successful third volume of the Khronicles, but on the other hand … what the gently caress does he do all day?? A decade of being completely unproductive would drive me to suicidal despair, and I’m not even an “artist“. I thought it was a universal thing that human beings need to be active, or their mental and physical health collapse. Browse the internet, jack off, game, things of that nature
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Evil Fluffy posted:It's unfortunate he still hasn't been, and likely never will be, prosecuted for charitable fraud. Probably because it's not legally fraud. Directing a ton of money into 'operations' costs and then cutting a check for the remainder to another charity is completely allowed. You have to have a single functioning brain cell to be smart enough to send the money to LLCs and such instead of directly to yourself, but it's not uncommon at all. IRS doesn't care about the spend unless someone is buying sports cars and Caribbean vacations on the charity dime and can't offer proof why it benefits the charity fundraising. Some of those big name, millions intake a year, celeb sponsered charities have insanely high operations costs, sometimes exceeding 50%, plus they also spend on lobbying and other activism that is technically allowed but not the stated goal.
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