ROSHtafARian Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Anyone know what the word counts of Brandon's books are? I know he said Alloy of Law was like 90K but anyone know the others? I'm just idly curious - with the exception of Way of Kings, most of his books like Elantris seem on the short end of epic fantasy, but still pack a ton of plot and worldbuilding in, and was curious how they compared wordcount wise to other authors' epic fantasies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevenThumps Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 The Two Wheel of Time books he's written can be found on Wot wiki. I don't know about the other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 Word counts are more or less: Elantris 200k. Final Empire 213k. Well of Ascension 248k. Hero of Ages 236k. Warbreaker 201k. Way of Kings 380k. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aradel Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I thought WoK was closer to 400k? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterAhlstrom Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 (edited) Way of Kings is 386,000. It gets complicated because there is text in the images, and there's the Ars Arcanum, etc. Also, lots of epic fantasies nowadays are under 200,000. Some editors want them at 100,000. Edited April 25, 2012 by PeterAhlstrom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack the Halls Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Before seeing this list, I think I would have guessed at least 50k higher for each one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chongjasmine Posted September 22, 2012 Report Share Posted September 22, 2012 Before reading this thread, I thought his book's word count to be 300k or more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legolasgalactica Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 A couple of interesting links about his books' word-counts: http://loopingworld.com/2009/03/06/wordcount/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3kwxga/a_chart_of_the_cumulative_word_count_of_brandon/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bLYPHdhopXVh81lTy1KZHfKZX2voue3bukb90u2_Kyw/pubhtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flynn Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 Tracking Brandon's Amazing Productivity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedcomic Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 (edited) ^ This comment has all the word counts. Edited February 28, 2017 by Fedcomic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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