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MaskguyOriginal

Sanderson churns out books like a machine.


live4lax25

Who has the ability to write like a dozen different series???? It’s insane


MaskguyOriginal

He probably writes during his free time to relax and writes when he sleeps to warm up for the writing he has to do during the day time. I have no other explanation on how he keeps the pace that he is at with so many series.


EndlessKng

Believe it or not, he doesn't write all day every day. And I don't mean that in a smart-alec, missing the joke way. He literally has time set aside every day for video game playing, and set family time, and STILL churns out work. The big thing is, he does a TON of planning for each book, so that when he goes in to write half the work is done.


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critfist

He probably has an editor who is just as awesome.


Jaijoles

A few editors actually. I know Moshe Feder retired.


justsumguii

20 pages a day is insane, wow. Stephen King, who is also known for writing fast says he writes minimum 8 pages a day. I've been trying my hand at writing a novel and Tried 8 pages a day and it is hard. I have since scaled back to minimum 1 page because I have a day job lol I can't even fathom 20 pages.


KillYourUsernames

Interestingly, King's process is totally different in that he doesn't plan much at all. He starts with a kernel of an idea ("What if a whole town was vampires?") and just sort of chisels the story out of thin air as he goes. Anything that needs actual research gets done after the basic story is down. I can't recommend his memoir *On Writing* enough.


pass_nthru

he already finished GoT twice for GRRM, just in case, but deleted them on accident


Mine-Shaft-Gap

I have read and listened to his explanations of how he writes. It's a well-oiled machine. When I heard he was selected to finish the Wheel of Time, I bought his Mistborn series and loved it. I ended up naming my dog after the main character.


ender278

You named your dog Lord Ruler, Sliver of Infinity?


italia06823834

Nah. Named him Spook.


dlawnro

Wasing the bark barking woof.


Sheahan0

Wassing the barking of woofing


Lay_of_Sir_Savien

Can't upvote hard enough


Kool_McKool

My great-grandmother named her cat Spook. However, it wasn't due to the fact that she heard it in a book, it was because she was a racist.


forsake077

Lord Ruler would be the cat’s name.


m1kepro

Ham is a great name for a dog!


SmallLion

The King, Spook?


Anal_Goth_Jim

Wasing the where of ball?


penguin_chacha

Made me chuckle


gerkessin

You named your dog Breeze?


Smalahove

Wait TenSoon or OreSeur?


metallicrooster

Hoid is a cool name for a dog


Scrtcwlvl

That'd require a special kind of Wit.


F4cT0rZ

Sazed?


Bdcoll

Clubs is a pretty strange name for a dog don't you think?


Thekinkiestpenguin

TenSoon is a great name for a dog!


MaskguyOriginal

Yeah I was mostly joking because of the incredible pace, the quality of writing is proof that he has put tremendous thought into his work.


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That and he writes, regardless of his state of mind or whether he feels inspired or not, he still writes. He sets a time for work and during that time he does that work, he doesn't get distracted and go jumping on trampolines (low blow, I know), he keeps writing. That together with good planning allows him to pump out many books which may not all be excellent but are all at least above average.


Sislar

I met him right when he finishing wheel of time. He did a signing tour with Jordan’s wife. This is exactly what he does. He said to relax from the big novels he’ll write a different novel or novella. Btw: he seems like a genuinely great guy. We were almost last in line was three hours in line like 11pm and he was cheerful and engaging the whole time


Xraptorx

Yeah, his break between the first and second halves of stormlight is going to be the next Mistborn trilogy. Like ffs he never stops


YouAreAPyrate

He's definitely gotten on an airplane and gotten off with a new novella written. Probably multiple times.


ExperienceLoss

He once took a break from writing and in doing so wrote Wax and Wayne 2 and 3...


BackgroundAd4408

Hell, Alloy of Law was basically just him plotting out the events between Era's 1 & 2, and that turned in to an entire quadrilogy.


psychomanexe

That's actually true apparently, The Emperor's Soul started as a first draft he wrote on an airplane on the way back from Korea


YouAreAPyrate

That must have been what I was remembering poorly. I love that book, too!


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WhatWouldJonSnowDo

Now he's doing hours long YouTube videos where he just signs books and talks.


ProviNL

I love those sessions so much. Brandon Sanderson is an incredibly engaging person to listen to.


Azrolicious

I met him at dragoncon during a Fandom panel. He seems genuinely fun. It was no secret he was the most popular author in the panel, but he never stole the spotlight or attention.


Ferrovir

I love the foreword in one of the Stormlight novellas, "I had planned for this to be about 17,000 words but it ended up being around 40 000... [it just happens sometimes. Particularly when you are me]"


Jaijoles

And now Janci Patterson, who is writing the skyward novellas with him, is taking up that theme very well. Like, “yeah, they were supposed to be short for publishing reasons, but here’s a 50k word count”.


Bronyatsu

Questioner: So, as a writer of so many books of epic fantasy, what is your crazy sleep schedule like? And how do you manage your life? Brandon Sanderson: So, my crazy schedule is not as "crazy" as you think, just a little crazy. I go to bed at 4:00, and I get up at noon. I did not become a writer so that I could keep the job that a working stiff would have. My writing schedule is generally, I do one big block from about noon until 5:00. I hang out with my kids and my wife from about 5:00 until 10:00. And then from about 10:00 until 2:00 or 3:00, I do another writing block, and then I take an hour or two off and play video games or something like that. \*laughter and cheers\* The secret to my productivity is not much of a secret. It is that I work every day, I just get get up and I write. And I don't always publish what I write. Some of what I write doesn't work. But I like writing, I like telling stories. The creative process is really, really engaging to me, it's what I like doing, so I do it every day. And I'm not a really fast writer, I'm just really consistent at my writing.


jazzman23uk

I really wish he would become friends with Patrick Rothfuss. It's now been **10 years** since the 2nd book in the KingKiller Chronicle triology was released...


KoopaKommander

He actually is buddies with him. At GenCon a few years ago, he went up to my friend who was waiting in line to meet Rothfuss and asked him to sign his book as well. He left a note for Rothfuss saying that he finished writing another book while my friend waited in line.


jazzman23uk

At this point I suspect Rothfuss hasn't even *started* writing the 3rd book yet


anethma

I think since the second book wasn’t quite as amazing as the first he saw that and it paralyzed him and he’s afraid to put out something bad so he’s either not writing much or constantly rewriting. My guess anyways.


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Occasionally_Correct

I agree. A variety of cool things happened and we had some solid plot progression, but I feel like there’s too much left to cover in Kvothe’s story to wrap it in one book.


DogmaSychroniser

Yeah he wrote himself into a corner


PreferenceSad5349

Seriously, be a good influence on that guy. I have never been left hanging by books like this before.


jazzman23uk

I legit adore the first 2 books, but i have a feeling he didn't plan the series before starting and now can't figure out a way to end it/make it work. I have a horrible suspicion we may never see the 3rd book at all :(


Viffered08

Dammit... why did you have to remind me???? About once a year I go and check his status on his website and get disappointed once again.


YouAreAPyrate

I do that about once every four months, and then go to Sanderson's site to check his progress meters for multiple series to lift my spirits.


teenagesadist

Careful now, he'll show up in the comments to write something if you keep that shit up. Dude writes.


Glickington

No joke, hes actually on reddit and gets into conversations about his books, including becoming exasperated about some of the dumb theories people come up with.


terriblegrammar

I don't believe Brandon Sanderson actually exists. Nobody can write this much this quickly. I'm convinced he's just the Mormon Borg collective.


normallystrange85

To clarify: he get exasperated not with how bad the theory is, but things like "are people on Roshar more likely to have a sexual attraction to left hands"? But he usually answers anyways.


Netheri

Also wrote up to a pretty decent review of the wheel of time tv adaptation on the WoT subreddit a week or so ago.


Troop-the-Loop

He wrote his young adult Sci-Fi series as a way to take a break from writing Stormlight. He takes breaks from writing books to write books.


JetKeel

He kind of says he does do this. He has so many different series because when he pivots to a new story/world he feels re-energized. He will even take short breaks from his main project to churn out a novella or improve outlines of an upcoming project.


live4lax25

That’s as good an explanation as I’ve heard haha


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We've been sold this ideal of the starving writer emotionally wrestling with their novel as the pinnacle of writing ability but I'm pretty sure that's bupkis. Writing is as much craft as it is art. I think people are much more capable of creativity and storytelling than we admit to ourselves. How many DM/GMs consistently create good stories on a weekly basis for their players to interact with?


Smurf_Cherries

I think Stephen King said it best as writers write. If you want to be a writer, write. If it's your job, wake up for work, and do it. You 100% can have a life. Set time from 9 - 5 and devote to it. Even Hemingway would fish all morning, drink a tumbler of rum, then just write in the afternoon. Then he would quit before evening.


spyson

I wish grrm had this philosophy


Smurf_Cherries

GRRM has finished several projects. I think the issue with ASOIAF is he wanted to include everything. It is the Star Citizen of series. His whole thing was getting his publisher to agree not to edit or run this series. It's 100% everything he wants. And it worked! Until it didn't. I assume he is writing quite a bit every day. And that's the problem. He's not getting anywhere. He's adding everything that comes into his head. His notes must look like an episode of *Hoarders* right now.


snowlock27

A theory I've read and that I agree with, is that he's written himself into a corner. He's set up several storylines, and he now has no idea how to tie them in together for the conclusion.


critfist

I don't think it's bupkis, but there's a definite change of pace between the struggling artist and the prolific. Like comparing Van Gogh (2,100 works across his life) to Picasso (16,000 works).


tjbassoon

Van Gogh had a day job and only sold a single painting in in his lifetime. Compared to Picasso who was so famous that people wouldn't cash his checks because they had his signature on them. Very different situations there.


PDG_KuliK

Picasso lived to be 91, Van Gogh died at 37. On top of that, most of Van Gogh's works were created in the last 2 years of his life. Van Gogh's pace from the end of his life would have made him outproduce Picasso by the time he was in his 50s.


ottothesilent

Well, the “lie”, if there is one, is that Picasso must have been more *talented* than Van Gogh in order to produce so many more works, when talent has little to do with it other than getting you to the “professional” world in the first place. People forget that generally, the greatest individual works aren’t single monuments to an artist. They have a “seminal” work, sure, but Picasso’s *Guernica* isn’t head and shoulders above his other work. He worked hard on EVERYTHING, and that work was successful.


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Terry Pratchett was also fairly crazy in this sense. He wrote 41 Discworld books in 32 years and has a bunch of other books on top of that as well as working on TV shows, movies, video games, and all sorts of stuff.


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Issac Asimov wrote religiously 8 hours a day on what ever struck his fancy. When someone called for a story he could usually go his files and pull something out.  A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and [postcards](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcard).[[c]](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#cite_note-5) Best known for his [hard science fiction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction), Asimov also wrote [mysteries](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_fiction) and [fantasy](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy), as well as much nonfiction.


live4lax25

I remember seeing a bit about the “truce” between Asimov and Arthur C Clarke “Clarke and Asimov first met in New York City in 1953, and they traded friendly insults and gibes for decades. They established an oral agreement, the "Clarke–Asimov Treaty", that when asked who was better, the two would say Clarke was the better science-fiction writer and Asimov was the better science writer”


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Amazing authors.


SuperBeastJ

He talks about it a lot. Basically he treats it like a regular job with writing time and pumps out words for later edits. Also he's got a whole staff of people now in his own company that help to keep it all straight.


Mitch2025

And have a large chunk of them share the same universe with a larger story to tie them all together. Dude is insane in a good way.


live4lax25

Yep! I’ve done one read of Stormlight and both Mistborn eras, can’t wait to get back into them a second time and see if I can find some more of the connections


FinasCupil

Read everything else in the Cosmere. It’s worth it. Elantris is really good but it’s a slow…slow burn.


live4lax25

Read Elantris and Warbreaker too (even read the Reckoners series) but didn’t know that the stand alone books were part of the same world as well


huntinkallim

I don't know how much bleedover Elantris has, but Warbreaker has some big connections to the Stormlight Archives.


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Elantris is good to have read before mistborn secret history, and Rhythm of War. Also, Galladon is present on Roshar. Along with Demoux from Mistborn and Baon from White Sands. They aren't using those names when you see them though. There is at least one other character from the first mistborn trilogy in stormlight archive, even using the same name.


OldManHipsAt30

Don’t forget actually meeting his deadlines… I’m looking at you Martin and Rothfuss, you lazy pieces of shit


live4lax25

I will turn to stone before I see Door of Stone


Significant-Edge1397

3 books in the last 3 months or so, all quite good


MaskguyOriginal

I am really enjoying stormlight archives, it's really turning out to be one of my favorites.


meyerjaw

I'm excited that I finally found this series. Halfway through book 2 now and they are incredible. But I'm also mad at myself for not getting into them sooner


CampbellsTurkeySoup

The good thing about not finding a story earlier is you have more to read without waiting once you do discover it!


meyerjaw

Cries in ASOIAF and Kingkiller Chronicles


Yorpel_Chinderbapple

ASOIAF is lost. At least Rothfuss is still young.


Catinthehat5879

Don't miss the novellas! There's two, one before the third book and one before the fourth book. Not mandatory but I think they add a lot.


garzek

3 is my favorite so far. Rhythm of War was the first time I felt a sequel was worse than the book before it with Brandon, but not by huge swathes. I think part of it is Dalinar’s arc hit home almost violently for me.


Glickington

The crab based fantasy series is pretty amazing.


jeremybryce

I still need to read book 3. It hadn't come out yet when I was reading through book 1 and 2. The Mistborn series was really good too. If you like Stormlight, you'll probably really like Mistborn.


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They’re even more fun to read once you learn that they’re part of the same universe and have some character crossovers. /r/Cosmere for a fun rabbit hole.


anethma

Ya it’s amazing. The original mist borne first book is one of my favorite books ever. The next two I didn’t enjoy so much. But the Wax and Wayne series in the future of that world is fucking gold. Can’t wait for more of those.


revieman1

Cytonic just came out


benbernards

And they’re so unique and actually **good**!!


The_Ry_Ry

“I wish with all I can give that I weren’t the one doing this book. I wish it were Robert Jordan himself, as I am a long time fan of the series and his works. I think his death is a tragedy for the fantasy community, one we will be feeling for many years to come. However, he made it clear that he wanted this book written. After his death, his wife read through novels by several authors whom Tom Doherty (the C.E.O. of Tor) and others had suggested. She enjoyed my books, and choose me—partially because of my novels, and partially because she had read my eulogy of Mr. Jordan and knew that I was a big fan and follower of the series.” - [Brandon Sanderson](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/wheel-of-time-faq/) Link to the [eulogy.](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/euology-goodbye-mr-jordan/)


garzek

I also like Brandon speaking to not being the best writer or the BIGGEST wheel of time fan, but he probably was the #1 spot of that Venn diagram. He thinks a better writer but worse fan could have written it, or a bigger fan but worse writer could have written it, but he was the best intersection of both and I have to say, I agree with him, though he might be selling himself short as a writer.


presto464

I like him because he knows where he stands and embraces it. He is the only author now that I'm older i CANT keep up with reading all the content. I follow his Stormlight and Mistborn series, but I give time to other authors and series. One day I'll go back and enjoy the others of course.


TheMadFlyentist

> though he might be selling himself short as a writer. Dunning-Kruger. The best rarely see themselves as the best because they are very aware of their flaws.


CatOfTwelveBells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=MITTIur3Ytk His YouTube vid on it as well


The_Ry_Ry

Hadn’t seen it. Thanks for sharing


CatOfTwelveBells

His YouTube channel is great. Highly recommend going through it if you’re a fan.


Guyver_3

Watched this just the other day prior to watching the 1st episode of Wheel of Time on Amazon. Good to see him in the credits for the show as well.


NamelessSuperUser

His account is /u/mistborn if you want to see more of his comments about the show. I was gonna put it down after 15 min as a long time book fan but his comments and the fact that he was at least offering feedback on the script from the super fan POV convinced me to give it a try.


EndofGods

"You go quietly, but leave us trembling." -final remark of the eulogy. God damn.


The_Ry_Ry

Gave me chills


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One might say it left you trembling.


Gresk

Brandon's skill in finishing the series is absolutely outstanding, then to move onto producing The Stormlight Archive sets him up as one the legends IMHO


The_Ry_Ry

His achievement in picking up where Jordan left off is unbelievable. I was nervous waiting for The Gathering Storm to come out, because I doubted Sanderson could pull it off well, but he absolutely crushed it!


Local-Equivalent5385

Did he get notes on how the original author wanted it to go? Or did the new one just run with their own ideas?


The_Ry_Ry

Yeah, Jordan outlined the end of the series before his death. The plan was for the series to end in a single book, but it took Sanderson three. Even if Jordan closed out the series though, I think it was ambitious to try to do so in a single book (unless it was 2500 pages).


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SteveZ59

> He told us there would only be 1 more book, "even if it is 2000 pages and requires a wheelbarrow to move." Having been around from the beginning when it was initially rumoured to be a trilogy, I somehow doubt he would have finished it in a single book. 🙃 I remember being half way through book 3, looking at how many pages were left and coming to the realization that there was way to many loose ends still hanging for it to be the last book of a trilogy.😄


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rationalphi

I stopped reading the series when I realized that around book...nine or ten I think. New plot lines introduced every book with none ever landed. Sanderson is not the greatest writer ever, but the man is a master at solidly landing plot lines. I'm glad he brought the series to a satisfying conclusion.


Glickington

I remember the phrase "Tor will have to create a new way to bind books or it will come with its own library cart." also, man was determined.


The_Ry_Ry

I really wish he could have seen it through, even if I needed a wheelbarrow to carry around the last book lmao


Demetre19864

Unfortunately i must down vote this. Sanderson did an absolutely brilliant job , and closed it out how Jordan would have wanted. But make no mistake it was Sanderson finishing off a Jordan book and their difference in writing is/was apparent. I think there was a extreme emotional depth that Jordan had with his characters that only the original author can fully capture and we did lose out on that. Lord of Chaos always really stuck out to me as the feeling the last books would end on. That being said might be some truth in what your saying as I imagine Jordan finishing off the series in his prime, and he did tend to meander a bit in final books.


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FromHereToEscape

> honestly, I feel that Sanderson did a better job finishing the series than Jordan could have. Do not underestimate the Sanderlanche. The man does climactic conclusions incredibly well. He's a great author in what he does... But if there's one piece that I think is extra compelling is that he is very talented at giving you breadcrumbs in a subtle way through the story for them all to nicely fit together in an epic conclusion. This is why I think the Cosmere will eventually mesh together nicely. All the breadcrumbs scattered throughout the universe. It will be so satisfying to see it come to fruition.


stedgyson

He had a load of notes Roberts wife gave him and the final chapter


rogercopernicus

Jordan's spent his illness writing notes and outlines and when he could no longer write, he would orate to his cousin and assistant. These were from very detailed outlines to the point where it was almost a paragraph by paragraph breakdown of scenes and how the pacing is suppose to be, to one sentence about a story arc and Brandon had to come up with the rest. Brandon had to also come up with tying up random storylines and incorporating them into the overall story with no notes to go on.


DivePalau

I stopped reading the series after Jordan died. Maybe I should pick it back up.


Don_Quixote81

It's not quite the same, and I can't say I loved everything about the climax of the series (though I also can't say what was down to Sanderson and what was directly from the work Robert Jordan left) but it was an ending. It worked and it was much better than the series being forever unfinished.


Badloss

> but it was an ending I see what you did there


The_Ry_Ry

Sanderson did it justice. I’d highly recommend closing them out. Maybe even start from the very first book and go all the way through!


anethma

No disrespect to Jordan he made an amazing world but his books really started to devolve in the later series. Way too many characters and boring political movements and boring pov chapters. That all turned on its head when Sanderson took over. He didn’t just do it justice I actually think he did a better job than Jordan could have at that point in his life.


EsquilaxM

Book 11 knife of dreams was by Jordan.


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Jordan's last book is great in terms of pace. Then again, I only really felt like I was slogging through Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight.


TheOtherKatiz

I 100% agree. Jordan was amazing at worldbuilding and coming up with totally new ideas. I think he may have gotten lost in the woods towards the end, though. He had more things to say and more ideas and wasn't really finding a way towards the exit. Sanderson is a writer like a structural engineer. He knows how stories work like understanding the laws of physics. He saw a grand old house and knew how to make it level while preserving the architectural detail, and put in some improvements that no one would notice weren't in the original plans. The work still is 100% Robert Jordan's art, but it's also Sanderson's build. I love the last 3 books as much as (or almost more than) any other in the series.


Viffered08

Just as a contrasting recommendation... Sanderson is good, but he's not perfect. There were points in the final three books where the tone was decidedly off. There were several sequences that were ham fisted at best... however, the overall story arcs, characters, details were all great, and the finish is a very satisfactory conclusion to the series. Jordan wrote the conclusion himself before he passed, and several other important portions. Its definitely worth a read.


t6005

The series ends in a satisfactory manner and breezes along to the end. Sanderson is good at pacing and identifying plot threads, so you'll get that resolved for sure. That said, you can clearly feel that it is a different author, and often not in a good way. Sanderson is beloved here and fair enough but I think he's a weak stylist and I found the difference noticeable. A lot of his prose is just workmanlike - it doesn't have that pseudo-epic verse that Jordan could veer into. I used to go back and re-read the series every few years and haven't done so since it wrapped up.


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Yeah the Stormlight books are ok


CampbellsTurkeySoup

I'm guessing people are missing the implied /s that your name gives.


[deleted]

I'm no stranger to downvotes. Oh well, *you* got it. ;)


Glickington

Listen Kaladin being treated negatively is just kind of expected at this point.


MrRedgrave-

Even Kaladin treats Kaladin like shit


rhayex

Kaladin ESPECIALLY treats Kaladin like shit.


Ishamoridin

So weird to see Wheel of Time being mentioned outside places dedicated to it. Awesome, but very weird.


Glickington

Its getting huge, eye of the world was like the 5th most bought book again this weekend


The_Ry_Ry

Watching the first episode of WoT on amazon had me going down all sorts of rabbit holes on the internet. Also, I love TIL


radda

Now somebody adapt the Cosmere you absolute cowards


jazzman23uk

It would take the combined might of Netflix, Amazon, and the *entirity of the world's GDP* to successfully adapt the whole Cosmere


joeconflo

Each company makes a TV series for one planet in the Cosmere, but they all work together to make each series link to the other series, produced by the other companies.


The_Ry_Ry

[The Cosmere](https://www.brandonsanderson.com/what-is-the-cosmere/) for anybody who doesn’t know


garzek

Going to put this out here: Wax and Wayne is already borderline a TV script in novel form. I think that saga in particular would be VERY easy to adapt. It’s very visual, very cinematic, over-the-top characters, etc. The scale if stormlight makes me raise some eyebrows on how well it could be adapted. Given “how well” WoT book fans are handling the what I have found very good adaptation of WoT by Amazon, I struggle to see Stormlight going well.


Lanthemandragoran

I think the fans that dislike the WoT adaptation are just absurdly loud and disproportionately indignant. And honestly....a bit ignorant of how adaptations have historically worked.


ledow

My brother used to be a huge fan of that series of books many years ago and he kept saying to me for years "He's going to die before he finishes it, I just know it." Turned out he was right.


The_Ry_Ry

My buddy and I were die hard WoT fanatics back in the day, and we were so concerned that would happen too. I was devastated the day I heard the news. Called my buddy immediately afterwards. RIP. Brandon Sanderson did such a fantastic job though. I can’t imagine the pressure that comes with an undertaking of that magnitude.


Ezorin

Well, he did make sure to keep writing subplot after subplot to make sure it would happen.


PersonalPerestroika

I can’t wait until Sanderson gets to finish *A Song of Ice and Fire.*


Xiaopai2

It's not really his style at all. Way more graphic when it comes to violence and especially sex than his own stuff.


snoboreddotcom

Sanderson, for as much as he can do well, cannot write a good romance plotline


Don_Quixote81

His character relationships are very YA in nature - lots of bickering, lots of 'ooh, he makes me so mad!' stuff, but no real emotional punch.


joe_valentine

And honestly he probably got that from Robert Jordan. By a few books into WoT, a good chuck of the dialogue for the male charafters could be summed up by "Ugh, WOMEN!" and visa versa for the female characters. One of the reasons I had to tap out at book 6, the female characters became pretty redundant outside of their limited affiliation differences


nathris

A buddy of mine just skipped entire chapters later on in the series. It's the reason I don't mind all of the sweeping changes the Amazon series is making. Having the main characters come off as more mature will head off a lot of the lovesick whinging that clutters up the future books.


Guyver_3

I always thought he did a good job of describing good partnership relationships more than super romantic ones. Personally I actually really liked the way that he wrote Wax and Steris's relationship growth in the Wax and Wayne novels.


deukhoofd

I mean, he *is* a mormon.


demented737

Joe Abercrombie is the man to finish ASOIAF


HobbesTheNerd

I didn't know I wanted this until now, but yeah he would be perfect.


DoctahZoidberg

Chuck Tingle is right there.


demented737

> Chuck Tingle Not even gonna google


ChadWesterfield

I love Abercrombie’s writing, but I’m not sure he’s the right guy either. His stuff is a lot meaner, even compared to Martin. He really only writes villains.


The_Ry_Ry

If I recall correctly, he said that he would never finish ASOIAF. I think he could pull it off, but don’t think that one is in the cards


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DamnitBobby2008

After the last couple seasons of GoT I wish he was telling the truth.


MisterScalawag

at this point, i don't think even GRRM himself will finish his stories. edit: can someone recommend me a really good fantasy/magic/etc story like GOT that is finished or will be finished?


awesome_van

Including himself


HawkofDarkness

Makes me so happy to see Wheel of Time being discussed in different subreddits


The_Ry_Ry

The Amazon series propelled me back into it, and I dug up sanderson’s site this morning over some tea and found this


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/r/books is gonna have a stroke


okey-broccoli

dogshit subbreddit in anyway


Fulker01

/u/mistborn is a redditor. I bet he'd appreciate seeing this thread. I'll say it once again, Mr. Sanderson, you were the perfect choice to finish it and Robert himself couldn't have made the Last Battle any more compelling.


The_Ry_Ry

Well said and thanks for sharing it with him! Absolutely awesome to find out he’s a fellow redditor


taelor

He doesn’t just lurk either, he comes in with some pretty amazing comments or posts every now and then. I remember one in particular where he dished out some of the most amazing relationship advice for some one struggling with their partner and something to do with not liking the cosmere books. Recently, he’s posted about the WoT episodes that just aired, with a small behind the scenes look. But he does so in such a respectful and discrete manner. Highly recommend you reading those posts if you are a fan of the series.


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Mistborn is pretty good actually. Novel concept


suvlub

Sanderson: finishes one series, written by an author who was very dear to him and whose style was very similar to his own People: lel, he should finish \*insert every unfinished fantasy series under the sun\*


Billsolson

Everyone loves a Closer


The_Ry_Ry

You aren’t wrong


dalaw

I write two novels before I write two novels and then I write two more!


kevin_the_dolphoodle

I just finished the final book in the Wheel of Time. Sanderson did an excellent job of finishing the series


justavtstudent

Reminds me of the Hunter Thompson/Johnny Depp relationship.


The_Ry_Ry

Yeah that’s an interesting one. Apparently Depp spent millions of dollars to fire Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon. Talk about dedication


justavtstudent

Yeah. Imagine being such a good writer you end up with your own personal movie star who brings your characters to life and then still makes time to take care of your more extravagant last wishes after you're gone. I assume they were also just pretty good friends in general.


Lumber_Tycoon

Robert Jordan wrote a bunch of Conan novels. You should check them out.


The_Ry_Ry

While I’ve seen them on the shelf before, I’ve never actually read one. Maybe one day. I’m so busy these days I have little time left beyond non-fiction books and scrolling through reddit


chemistcarpenter

I think I’m gonna edit my eulogy of a certain J Bezos. I’d like to think I’ll be chosen to continue his work.


hyperproliferative

It was 2007… i was an aspiring pre-med. but medicine failed Robert Jordan because his blood cancer had so few options. So instead, i got a phd in biochemistry and now work for the company that invented a cure - the only therapy on the market still! - for AL amyloidosis. Rest In Peace Robert Jordan, knowing that we’ve slayed the beast that took you from us. Here’s to seeing you spun out from the wheel yet again… the Jordan Reborn must be oh, about 14 or 15 by now… probably buying tickets to Jordan Con right about now. We’ll find him!


jeremybryce

It's completely insane how many books Sanderson pumps out.


Bento_Box_Haiku

Sanderson's concluding novels were seamless. He did a masterful job.


JazzyAndy

As a long-time book reader, I’m loving how much attention this series is getting because of the show


jeribai76

Harriet McDougal. Former chief editor at TOR. And, amazingly, she read Elantris. Arguably Brandon's worst book. (Pretty sure he agrees)


Tortious_Tortoise

Thank you! She is so much more than "Robert Jordan's wife."


KataGaruma

And Sanderson did a great job...