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BethG

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  1. LOL! My husband could have been Brandon’s model for Kaladin in every way, so we are blessed ladies! I am very happy to hear you are writing your novel!!! I will need to read it! I have no criticisms of your writing. You had all the ingredients (noting that you used Brandon’s world building but you have the skill to do that, too): good character development, good plotting, good suspense, knowledge (research or something you already knew) for science/logic, and what I call “movement”. You kept the characters “moving”. For example, one of my favorite chapters from SA is Kaladin and Bridge 4 learning to ride horses. It wasn’t REALLY about learning to ride as Brandon used it for “movement” for exposition instead of having the characters sitting around talking.
  2. Thank you for reading them both! I liked the first one for taking the time to develop more. I agree with you on the end needing him to connivance her she was worthy, but it was getting long and I was afraid people wouldn’t want to read such a long fanfic, so I did the deus ex machina thing. And he was telling her she was worthy when Jon chimed in. Kaladin was in a better mental place in the second one (after RoW), and that took away from the romantic tension from him. I based that on more my husband and I doing the love at first sight thing—one heart, one soul. I knew the night I met him he was the one, and we’ve been married over 47 years!
  3. This is WONDERFUL! I LOVE it! Beautifully written. I love that you created all your own characters. You developed them well and I love the romance. ( I love that Pattis’ description reminded me of Kaladin, too). A+ from an old English teacher!
  4. I’ll check it out. Your fic, too. I didn’t think they allowed using Brandon’s based works off this site.
  5. Thank you so much! I love Kaladin more than any character in all of literature. I have been married for over 47 years to a man Brandon could have used as the model for him, so I think I have a good idea of the kind of relationship he needs. I hope Brandon gives him a sweet girl and a happily ever after. If there’s a character in the Cosmere who deserves one, it’s Kal! This is my second try at this. I did Elebet 2.0 after reading RoW. Elebet Kholin was written after I read Oathbringer. She’s basically the same character but a different circumstance from a different point in the storyline. It’s posted earlier on here.
  6. Hey admins, I keep getting notifications of posts that are just advertisements, multiple times no less. Please stop them.
  7. Thank you so much!!! You made my day! And I want it to happen, too. ;D
  8. Yep, Vyre needs to be gutted. And Kaladin shouldn’t have to do it. Thanks for reading this one, too!
  9. If you would like to read my first romantic fic for Kaladin, set immediately after Oathbringer, here’s a link: https://www.icloud.com/pages/0GYOFAiDTRyk0xGVbQlkVpeOQ#Elebet
  10. I have thought about Kal and Syl. They certainly love each other and need each other. And she has the qualities he needs in a girl, combining his mother’s patience and wisdom with Tien’s childlike wonder of the world. I mention that idea in my other fanfic—Elebet asks Syl if she can’t be like a human and love him because Elebet sees how they love each other. My version of Syl (we had no idea of what Ishar was doing when I wrote it—takes place at the end of Oathbringer) says she is part of a god and part of Kaladin’s mind, so she doesn’t see how that would work. To me it would almost be a weird self love. But if Brandon goes that way—huzzah! He can fix it.
  11. I hope Brandon has been saving his romantic arc for a special girl! I don’t think we’ve met her yet. Shallan and Adolin are too perfect for each other, Laral is a self centered slontze demanding he do what she wanted, and Tarah gave him ultimatums between what he needed and her and then chose her father over Kaladin. I can’t stand either one. (And asking Kaladin to raise Roshone’s children is asking a lot of even Kaladin’s good heart.). It seems like on one of Kaladin’s flights with Stormfather he went through a building and saw a (fair haired?) girl who he thought saw him. I am hoping that’s a hint. Brandon rarely says something that specific without it meaning something.
  12. LOL, I had to write them because I had finished reading all the Cosmere books (SA 5 times!) and LOVE Kaladin. I missed him and needed him to be happy. I am terrified that Brandon will never give him a romantic happy ending, so I had to come up with one…..well, two.
  13. Thank you for reading it! If you liked this one, I did another posted here, called Elebet Kholin, that takes place after Oathbringer. Same name, because I like it, but different story. (It’s about twice as long.)
  14. Thanks! I like it. And I like that you picked an Edgedancer for him. I did for my 2 romantic fanfics for Kal, too.
  15. Interesting. But Elebet hasn’t worn a glove or sleeve in over a year, so by now that would probably not be something she’d notice anymore.
  16. Sorry, I set it so no one could change it but me. You are welcome to make suggestions to me here.
  17. LOL! I just appreciate you reading it! Thanks for caring enough to question.
  18. They were in the floor of Cap’s stall, down where no one could see. She took the glove off to show him she was comfortable with him because he had asked her if she was going to be comfortable with a man (after having been violated by her former master). And I confess, it’s my fantasy to tangle my bare fingers into Kaladin’s hair.
  19. Thanks!!! I don’t have beta readers or an editor, lol, just spell check, which isn’t always my friend. I will reread and hunt the places to correct. And I am afraid something like this won’t come to pass, either, which is why I had to write it myself.
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