Popular Post Fedcomic Posted July 25, 2016 Popular Post Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 I used to have a spreadsheet tracking the number of pages of new fiction Brandon published each year, but it was lost in a laptop crash. So I am going to recreate it here. There might be a couple of other folks that would find it interesting, and hopefully also some people who can correct me where I'm wrong. A couple of quick notes on methods: (1) Relying on page numbers is, of course inexact. Using word counts would give us a much more accurate measurement of productivity. But I only have word counts for a few of these works, so page numbers it is. (2) Wherever possible, I will use the original US release to determine the number of pages. If I don't have that, I use whatever I can find. If you have the original release, please pass along the info and I will update. Thanks! NEW PAGES OF FICTION BY BRANDON SANDERSON PUBLISHED EACH YEAR 2005 total = 622 pages of new fiction Elantris, 622 pp. (Tor, mass market paperback) 2006 total = 565 pages of new fiction "Hope of Elantris," 24 pages (BrandonSanderson.com) Mistborn: The Final Empire, 541 pp. (Tor, hardcover) 2007 total = 902 pages of new fiction Well of Ascension, 590 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, 312 pp. (Scholastic, hardcover) 2008 total = 1,056 pages of new fiction Hero of Ages, 572 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones, 324 pp. (Scholastic, trade paperback) Defending Elysium, 83 pp. (Dragonsteel, 2013 hardcover) Firstborn, 77 pp. (Dragonsteel, 2013 hardcover) 2009 total = 1,698 pages of new fiction Warbreaker, 592 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia, 323 pp. (Scholastic, hardcover) The Gathering Storm, 783 pp. (Tor, hardcover) 2010 total = 2,164 pages of new fiction The Way of Kings, 1007 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Towers of Midnight, 861 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Alcatraz vs. the Shattered Lens, 296 pp. (Scholastic, hardcover) 2011 total = 495 pages of new fiction "I Hate Dragons," 8 pp. (BrandonSanderson.com) Infinity Blade: Awakening, 128 pp. (Kindle ebook) The Alloy of Law, 332 pp. (Tor, hardcover) "The Eleventh Metal," 27 pp. (BrandonSanderson.com) 2012 total = approximately 288 pages of new fiction "Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine," I am guessing maybe like 25 pages? (mass market paperback has 600 pages and 25-ish stories, so...) Legion, 88 pp. (Subterranean, hardcover) The Emperor's Soul, 175 pp. (Tachyon, trade paperback) 2013 total = approximately 1,943 pages of new fiction A Memory of Light, 909 pp. (Tor, hardcover) The Rithmatist, 372 pp. (Tor, hardcover) "River of Souls," I am guessing maybe like 25 pages? (hardcover has 570 pages and 25-ish stories, so...) Infinity Blade: Redemption, 147 pp. (Kindle ebook) Steelheart, 386 pp. (Delacorte, hardcover) Mitosis, 15 pp. (ebook, iTunes and Google Play stores) "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell," 89 pp. (Kindle ebook) 2014 total = approximately 1,464 pages of new fiction Words of Radiance, 1087 pp. (Tor, hardcover) "Dreamer," I am guessing maybe like 25 pages? (book has 369 pages and 15-ish stories, so...) "Sixth of the Dusk," 44 pp. in Shadows Beneath (Dragonsteel, hardcover) Plus 97 pp. of bonus material "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania," guessing like 25 pages? The Way of Kings Prime excerpt, maybe like 75 pages? Legion: Skin Deep, 208 pp. (Kindle ebook) 2015 total = approximately 903 pages of new fiction Firefight, 432 pp. (Delacorte, hardcover) Perfect State, 87 pp. (Kindle ebook) Shadows of Self, 384 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Elantris 10th anniversary edition, probably some new words but not sure how to measure this. 2016 total = at least 1,575 pages of new fiction Bands of Mourning, 448 pp. (Tor, hardcover) Mistborn: Secret History, 242 pp. (ebook, iTunes and Google Play stores) Calamity, 421 pp. (Delacorte, hardcover) White Sand, Volume 1 graphic novel, 160 pp. (Dynamite, hardcover) Alcatraz vs. the Dark Talent, 304 pp. (Starscape, hardcover) Short story for Unfettered II anthology, ??? Arcanum Unbounded, Edgedancer, ??? Other new materials 2017 total = we'll see For the curious at home, this gets us an average of about 1,140 new pages of fiction per year. Man, do I wish all my favorite authors put out this much for me to read. (: 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 This makes me happy. I know pretty much everybody is angsting about when Stormlight 3 is going to be released, and I think it's great to have a definite measure laid down that shows how good Brandon has been to us, his fans. Kudos to you for gathering all this info and doing the math! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 1,140......that's around 3 and a bit pages per day and around 21 and a bit a day. Now that I think about it, as far as writing goes that's not so bad. I think one should put in the amount of time Sanderson has put in creating the ideas as well, the amount of drafts, reworks and the long days he spent trying to sniff out plot holes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted July 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 For those who are interested, Oversleep alerted me to a Polish website that does more or less this same thing, and includes wordcount. Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted December 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 Anybody have Unfettered II? There's a Brandon story in it called "The Thrill." I'm wondering if it's Cosmere, and also how long it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landis963 Posted December 29, 2016 Report Share Posted December 29, 2016 9 hours ago, Fedcomic said: Anybody have Unfettered II? There's a Brandon story in it called "The Thrill." I'm wondering if it's Cosmere, and also how long it is. Spoiler It's the first few Dalinar flashbacks from Oathbringer, so yes and novella length. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C. M. Hayden Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 Brandon has a cloning machine, confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian Posted January 2, 2017 Report Share Posted January 2, 2017 I suspect he did a Taravangian 15 years ago, wrote the entire Cosmere sequence and has been lying around since then occasionally releasing parts of it to avoid raising suspicion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted January 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 On 12/29/2016 at 0:25 AM, Landis963 said: Hide contents It's the first few Dalinar flashbacks from Oathbringer, so yes and novella length. Awesome! How many pages? (If you have a physical book, or an ebook with page numbers.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxal Posted January 8, 2017 Report Share Posted January 8, 2017 On 12/28/2016 at 3:47 PM, Fedcomic said: Anybody have Unfettered II? There's a Brandon story in it called "The Thrill." I'm wondering if it's Cosmere, and also how long it is. There are four long flashback chapters which follow Dalinar 36, 34, 28 and 25 years ago which makes him a bit older than we all initially assumed. It has about 1000 pages according to my Kindle, I don't know how many words. They are very good: no spoilers in there, but several interesting to know facts. We get to read how he got Oathbringer, where it comes from and just this is worth the read. We also get to see him meet his wife, we find out her name and, much to my personal delight because I love to know those tiny facts, we get to have a good idea as to how old are many characters. Spoiler Oh and, by the looks of it, Dalinar's wife is in no hurry to marry him as, 25 years ago, they still weren't married. I am really starting to wonder how it is they even got married... Food for thoughts here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 (edited) NEW WORDS OF FICTION BY BRANDON SANDERSON PUBLISHED EACH YEAR 2005 total = 202 765 words of new fiction Elantris, 202 765 words 2006 total = 228 852 words of new fiction The Hope of Elantris, 14 100 words Mistborn: The Final Empire, 214 752 word 2007 total = 313 139 words of new fiction The Well of Ascension, 252 739 words Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, 60 400 words 2008 total = 332 746 words of new fiction Defending Elysium, 14 864 words The Hero of Ages, 244 201 words Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones, 59 681 words Firstborn, 14 000 words 2009 total = 588 826 words of new fiction Warbreaker, 236 301 words Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia, 58 033 words The Gathering Storm, 294 492 words 2010 total = 767 909 words of new fiction The Way of Kings, 386 470 words Towers of Midnight, 325 636 words Alcatraz vs. the Shattered Lens, 53 788 words I Hate Dragons, 2 015 words 2011 total = 108 559 words of new fiction I Hate Dragons - Extended Edition, 3 659 words (added, not total) Infinity Blade: Awakening, 13 100 words The Alloy of Law, 85 000 words The Eleventh Metal, 6 800 words 2012 total = approximately 56 285 words of new fiction Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine, I guessed 6000 words (I guessed 24 pages) (I guessed 250 words/page.)) Legion, 18 100 words The Emperor's Soul, 32 185 words 2013 total = approximately 596 807 words of new fiction A Memory of Light, 352 686 words The Rithmatist, 89 898 words River of Souls, 4200 words Infinity Blade: Redemption, 13 000 words Steelheart, 107 599 words Mitosis, 9000 words Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, I guessed 20 424 words (~12 words/line x 37 lines/page x ~46 pages (Dangerous Women Anthology)(This is probably an overshoot, as some of the lines ended early at the end of a paragraph or with dialogue)) 2014 total = approximately 486 224 words of new fiction Words of Radiance, 398 238 words Dreamer, I guessed 6250 words (I guessed 25 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) The Way of Kings Prime - excerpt, I guessed 18750 words (I guessed 75 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) Sixth of the Dusk, I guessed 21 736 words (~13 words/line x 38 lines/page x ~44 pages (Shadows Beneath) (Not including bonus material, because it’s mostly drafting, Writing Excuses transcripts, as well as an essay)) Legion: Skin Deep, 35 000 words Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, I guessed 6250 words (I guessed 25 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) 2015 total = approximately 246 750 words of new fiction Firefight, 107 000 words Perfect State, 17 750 words Shadows of Self, 112 000 words Elantris 10th anniversary edition, approximately 10 000 words (added, not total) 2016 total = at least 390 780 words of new fiction The Bands of Mourning, 127 000 words Mistborn: Secret History, 50 000 words Calamity, 105 000 words White Sand, Volume 1 graphic novel, ??? words (I won’t count this, because I don’t know how to count the words fairly) Alcatraz vs. the Dark Talent, I guessed 51955 words (Guess based on average words per page of first 4 Alcatraz novels (New Tor Editions) and multiplying that number by the number of pages in Alcatraz 5 (300) (Page numbers for each book from Goodreads)) Arcanum Unbounded, Edgedancer, ~40 000 words Essays and White Sand (prose) preview, I guessed 16 825 words (I guessed by taking the word count of Arcanum Unbounded and subtracting the word count of each story included) 2017 total = at least ~403 898 words of new fiction? Snapshot, 23 898 words Oathbringer, ~380 000 - 514 000 words? Average new words per year (excluding 2017) = ~359 970 words/year Total new words = 4 343 540 words @Fedcomic deserves acknowledgement for this, as I shamelessly stole their pages of fiction post (above) to use as a template, and almost all the guesses for the number of pages came from that as well. Thank you Fedcomic. Let me know if I should change something. Thanks for reading!! Edited April 4, 2017 by Flynn Added Snapshot word count! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted January 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 (edited) Quote I hope this is helpful. Let me know if I should change something. Nice! Where did you get your word counts? Edited January 17, 2017 by Fedcomic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Secret Corner Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 6 hours ago, Flynn said: NEW WORDS OF FICTION BY BRANDON SANDERSON PUBLISHED EACH YEAR 2005 total = 202 765 words of new fiction Elantris, 202 765 words 2006 total = 228 852 words of new fiction Hope of Elantris, 14 100 words Mistborn: The Final Empire, 214 752 words 2007 total = 313 139 words of new fiction Well of Ascension, 252 739 words Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, 60 400 words 2008 total = 332 746 words of new fiction Hero of Ages, 244 201 words Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones, 59 681 words Defending Elysium, 14 864 words Firstborn, 14 000 words 2009 total = 588 826 words of new fiction Warbreaker, 236 301 words Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia, 58 033 words The Gathering Storm, 294 492 words 2010 total = 765 894 words of new fiction The Way of Kings, 386 470 words Towers of Midnight, 325 636 words Alcatraz vs. the Shattered Lens, 53 788 words 2011 total = 110 800 words of new fiction I Hate Dragons, 5 900 words Infinity Blade: Awakening, 13 100 words The Alloy of Law, 85 000 words The Eleventh Metal, 6 800 words 2012 total = approximately 56 285 words of new fiction Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine, I guessed 6000 words (I guessed 24 pages) (I guessed 250 words/page.)) Legion, 18 100 words The Emperor's Soul, 32 185 words 2013 total = approximately 596 807 words of new fiction A Memory of Light, 352 686 words The Rithmatist, 89 898 words River of Souls, 4200 words Infinity Blade: Redemption, 13 000 words Steelheart, 107 599 words Mitosis, 9000 words Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, I guessed 20 424 words (~12 words/line x 37 lines/page x ~46 pages (Dangerous Women Anthology) (This is probably an overshoot, as some of the lines ended early at the end of a paragraph)) 2014 total = approximately 486 224 words of new fiction Words of Radiance, 398 238 words Dreamer, I guessed 6250 words (I guessed 25 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.) Sixth of the Dusk, I guessed 21 736 words (~13 words/line x 38 lines/page x ~44 pages (Shadows Beneath) (Not including bonus material, because it’s mostly drafting, Writing Excuses transcripts, as well as an essay) Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, I guessed 6250 words (I guessed 25 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) The Way of Kings Prime - excerpt, I guessed 18750 words (I guessed 75 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) Legion: Skin Deep, 35 000 words 2015 total = approximately 246 750 words of new fiction Firefight, 107 000 words Perfect State, 17 750 words Shadows of Self, 112 000 words Elantris 10th anniversary edition, approximately 10 000 words (added, not total) 2016 total = at least 430 780 words of new fiction The Bands of Mourning, 127 000 words Mistborn: Secret History, 50 000 words Calamity, 105 000 words White Sand, Volume 1 graphic novel, ??? words (I won’t count this, because I don’t know how to count the words fairly) Alcatraz vs. the Dark Talent, I guessed 51955 words (Guess based on average words per page of first 4 Alcatraz novels (New Tor Editions) and multiplying that number by the number of pages in Alcatraz 5 (300) (Page numbers for each book from Goodreads)) Arcanum Unbounded, Edgedancer, ~40 000 words Essays and White Sand (prose) preview, I guessed 56 825 words (I guessed by taking the word count of Arcanum Unbounded and subtracting the word count of each story included) 2017 total = at least 400 000 words of new fiction Snapshot, ~20 000 - 40 000 words? Oathbringer, ~380 - 400 000 words? Average new words per year (excluding 2017) = ~363 322 words I made this to avoid inaccurate comparison due to varying words/page between books. @Fedcomic deserves acknowledgement for this, as I shamelessly stole their pages of fiction post (above) to use as a template, and almost all the guesses for the number of pages came from that as well. I hope this is helpful. Let me know if I should change something. Wait a second, wasn't Edgedancer's word count 60,000? I remember it being 60,000. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 (edited) On 1/18/2017 at 0:36 AM, Fedcomic said: Nice! Where did you get your word counts? Thanks! I got most of them from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLYPHdhopXVh81lTy1KZHfKZX2voue3bukb90u2_Kyw/pubhtml I got one or two from here: http://drogakrolow.pl/bibliografia-nowego-mistrza/ (the polish website you mentioned earlier) For some I googled around until I found somebody, anybody, saying they had a word count Some I just guessed based on page count and a guess for words/page One of them I found a pdf and put it in Microsoft Word, removed page numbers etc.. (I already bought my own copy of said book, I deleted the pdf and word document afterwards) Update (04-04-2017): I found a word count for Snapshot!! Source: http://m.imgur.com/gallery/veN6h On 1/18/2017 at 2:13 AM, Secrets said: Wait a second, wasn't Edgedancer's word count 60,000? I remember it being 60,000. It says on Brandon's site on his page for AU that it's 40 000, I just used that. http://brandonsanderson.com/books/cosmere-short-fiction/arcanum-unbounded/ Edited April 4, 2017 by Flynn updated for Snapshot word count source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted January 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 19 hours ago, Flynn said: Thanks! I got most of them from here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLYPHdhopXVh81lTy1KZHfKZX2voue3bukb90u2_Kyw/pubhtml Cool. Any idea who put that spreadsheet together? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) On 1/19/2017 at 3:05 AM, Fedcomic said: Cool. Any idea who put that spreadsheet together? Yeah, it's from the person who posted a chart over on Reddit showing Brandon's word count over time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3kwxga/a_chart_of_the_cumulative_word_count_of_brandon/ For some reason the spreadsheet is more up to date than the chart. I guess they're still updating it Edited March 4, 2017 by Flynn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 (edited) Novels are over the line, Shorter-than-novels are under the line (Elantris 10th anniversary only includes added words). Spreadsheet with word counts and dates: Branderson cumulative word count 2017-04-04.xlsx Branderson is awesome. PS: sorry the text is a little small in the image Thanks for reading(/looking)! Edited April 4, 2017 by Flynn Updated graph and spreadsheet for Snapshot word count, added step graph version of chart 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted March 2, 2017 Report Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) Normalised page count version, based on words/page of The Way of Kings (~384 words/page [386 470 words/1 007 pages]) NEW PAGES OF FICTION BY BRANDON SANDERSON PUBLISHED EACH YEAR 2005 total = 528 pages Elantris, 528 pages 2006 total = 596 pages The Hope of Elantris, 37 pages Mistborn: The Final Empire, 560 pages 2007 total = 816 pages The Well of Ascension, 659 pages Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, 157 pages 2008 total = 867 pages Firstborn, 36 pages Alcatraz vs. the Scrivener's Bones, 156 pages The Hero of Ages, 636 pages Elysium, 39 pages 2009 total = 1 534 pages Warbreaker, 616 pages Alcatraz vs. the Knights of Crystallia, 151 pages The Gathering Storm, 767 pages 2010 total = 1 996 pages of new fiction The Way of Kings, 1 007 pages Towers of Midnight, 848 pages Alcatraz vs. the Shattered Lens, 140 pages I Hate Dragons, 5.25 pages 2011 total = 289 pages I Hate Dragons - Extended Edition, 9.5 pages (added, not total) Infinity Blade: Awakening, 34 pages The Alloy of Law, 221 pages The Eleventh Metal, 18 pages 2012 total = approximately 147 pages Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine, I guessed 16 pages Legion, 47 pages The Emperor's Soul, 84 pages 2013 total = approximately 1 555 pages A Memory of Light, 919 pages The Rithmatist, 234 words River of Souls, 11 pages Infinity Blade: Redemption, 34 pages Steelheart, 280 pages Mitosis, 23 pages Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, I guessed 53 pages 2014 total = approximately 1 267 pages Words of Radiance, 1 038 pages Dreamer, I guessed 16 pages The Way of Kings Prime - excerpt, I guessed 49 pages Sixth of the Dusk, I guessed 57 pages Legion: Skin Deep, 91 pages Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, I guessed 16 pages (I guessed 25 pages. (I guessed 250 words/page.)) 2015 total = approximately 643 pages Firefight, 279 pages Perfect State, 46 pages Shadows of Self, 292 pages Elantris 10th anniversary edition, 26 pages (added, not total) 2016 total = at least 1 123 pages The Bands of Mourning, 331 pages Mistborn: Secret History, 130 pages Calamity, 274 pages White Sand, Volume 1 graphic novel, ??? pages Alcatraz vs. the Dark Talent, I guessed 135 pages Arcanum Unbounded, Edgedancer, ~104 pages Essays and White Sand (prose) preview, I guessed 44 pages 2017 total = at least 1052 pages? Snapshot, 62 pages Oathbringer, ~990 - 1339 pages? Average new pages per year (excluding 2017) = ~938 pages Total new pages = 11 317 pages Once again, thank you @Fedcomic for the template I shamelessly stole. If there's something I should change, please let me know. Thanks for reading (= Edited April 4, 2017 by Flynn Updated to include Snapshot word count!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted March 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 (edited) On 1/17/2017 at 3:39 AM, Flynn said: @Fedcomic deserves acknowledgement for this, as I shamelessly stole their pages of fiction post (above) to use as a template, and almost all the guesses for the number of pages came from that as well. Thank you Fedcomic. Glad you found this to be useful, @Flynn! I love what you've been doing. Edited March 4, 2017 by Fedcomic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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