Brandon Sanderson Facts

[Alfa he/him]

Brandon decided that the easiest way to write a bad book would be to write something with no plot or characters.

When he finished writing it, he titled it the Ars Arcanum.

 

1) "Too many characters, not enough plot. Boring." "What are you reading?" "A telephone book"

2)"No characters, no plot. I still like it" "What are you reading?" "Ars Arcanum"

Edited February 25, 2016 by Alfa

[Stormgate he/him]

You know, a popular sci-fi book was written with no plot. It's called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Just thought I'd point that out.

[Sunbird she/her]

You know, a popular sci-fi book was written with no plot. It's called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Just thought I'd point that out.

 

I haven't read that one yet. (It's on my list, though!) Was it anything like the movie? Because that had a plot. A silly one, but a plot nevertheless.

[Oversleep]

I haven't read that one yet. (It's on my list, though!) Was it anything like the movie? Because that had a plot. A silly one, but a plot nevertheless.

Haven't seen the film, but it's as you say - there is a plot. Similar to Discworld books, amount of absurd is high.

[AnikoliNightmareVision she/her]

When Nightwatcher want some of her own wishes to be granted, she goes to Brandon Sanderson.

[SorenKnight he/him]

I have nothing against hitting someone with a book but using it to stop bullets is a no go.

 

Brandon Sanderson books are so good people would rather be shot than use a Brandon Sanderson book to block the bullet.

 

Edit: Responded with this as soon as I saw the quote, then found out that king of nowhere already said it, but better, 5 pages ago.   

Edited March 10, 2016 by SorenKnight

[Citadel16 he/him]

brandon sanderson once wrote a 300 page book and called it a novella.

[Stormgate he/him]

Sanderson once had a book end with a deux ex machina without making it look like a deux ex machina. We call it Mistborn: the Hero of Ages

[Alfa he/him]

Sanderson once had a book end with a deux ex machina without making it look like a deux ex machina. We call it Mistborn: the Hero of Ages

 

That are the best deus ex machina endings.

[Dragon314 he/him]

Brandon Sanderson once ate paper. When regurgitated and thrown into the time vortex, they became known as shakespeare's best works

[Espella]

Sanderson once Soulcast a stick into his new Stormlight novel. The deleted interlude he gave on the website was actually cut short, as the stick realizes shortly after that he would much rather be WoR.

 

It is commonly speculated that Sanderson has used spikes to steal writing speed from other authors. This is false- he actually spiked himself so the publishing team could keep up, and is currently trying to decide who is worthy of recieving his gifts.

 

Sanderson once created Assassin's Creed before the game was out, but they were so effective he had to move them into a harsh, empty land to keep them from killing everyone in a week. He called it White Sands.

Edited March 22, 2016 by Espella

[Eluvianii he/him]

Once, Brandon created a magic system that allowed him to breathe out words instead of CO2, this was in order to finish books faster. The system had a flaw (a very rare thing to happen), for when he sneezed entire books came out. This is where most of his short works come from. However, one day he caught a cold, he managed to get rid of it in three days but the damage was already done. His house was filled with thousands of pages, he didn't know what to do with that much text so he divided it into ten parts, decided to release them every 3 years or so and called it The Stormlight Archive.

P.S. I know i'm really, really late on this but I just couldn't resist, this thread is too awesome to die in 7 pages (I just hope this is legal).

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

The reason for why GRRM hasn't finished Winds of Winter yet is because he is too busy rereading all of Brandon Sandersons books. 

[Nathrangking he/him]

Brandon's Stormlight Archive books are so heavily invested that they can form perpendicularities for his reader's homes.

He has soul stamps which transform him into random guys on the street so that he can travel about surveying his kingdom unnoticed. 

 

 

 

[Weltall]

1 hour ago, Eluvianii said:

P.S. I know i'm really, really late on this but I just couldn't resist, this thread is too awesome to die in 7 pages (I just hope this is legal).

Bumping topics like this is totally okay, especially when you add fun new content. And in honor of your avatar (one of my favorite characters, from my favorite JRPG franchise) I've come up with some facts of my own:

- Brandon Sanderson and Toshihiro Kondo were separated at birth. How this works out is very complicated and involves time travel, a Dominion carrying a set of hemalurgic spikes and an Invested penguin.

- Brandon Sanderson is the Grandmaster of Ouroboros and the Sept-Terrion are actually seven fragments of the Shard of Cleverness.

- Brandon Sanderson has played every game in the Kiseki series, even the ones that don't exist yet. Similarly, Kondo has read every Cosmere book that ever will exist. This truth explains a great many things about the most recent works in each franchise.

[Eluvianii he/him]

2 hours ago, Weltall said:

- Brandon Sanderson and Toshihiro Kondo were separated at birth. How this works out is very complicated and involves time travel, a Dominion carrying a set of hemalurgic spikes and an Invested penguin.

- Brandon Sanderson is the Grandmaster of Ouroboros and the Sept-Terrion are actually seven fragments of the Shard of Cleverness.

- Brandon Sanderson has played every game in the Kiseki series, even the ones that don't exist yet. Similarly, Kondo has read every Cosmere book that ever will exist. This truth explains a great many things about the most recent works in each franchise.

Omg, those are awesome (I felt a chill with the Invested penguin), and I can't believe you're a Kiseki fan, at least here in Mexico they're virtually inexistent (as well as Sanderson fans for that matter), I'm in a quest right now trying to convert people to both fandoms.

[Weltall]

It is a noble thing you do. xD I've been trying to send Kiseki fans in Brandon's direction whenever the opportunity comes up, maybe I should start trying to do it in the other way around, too.

[Podman]

Kiseki?

[avus]

Brandon Sanderson Hemalurgically Spiked himself with Writing Speed he took form George R. R. and Garth Nyx.

He tries to model himself after the greatest man alive; it's really easy. He just has to be.

[Weltall]

@avus That would explain so much, might as well add Scott Lynch too. Hmmm, if he's got that many spikes for Writing Speed, maybe Brandon calling his birthday 'Koloss Head-Munching Day' was meant to be a hint to his true nature all along...

10 hours ago, Ookla the Conflusled said:

Kiseki?

Also called the Trails series, it's a JRPG franchise made by Nihon Falcom and localized by XSEED Games (with NISA distributing it outside the US). It's got a very similar approach to world-building as the Cosmere; all the entries in the franchise take place in the same setting (albeit a continent rather than a galaxy) at around the same time, there's lots of crossover and the more games you play, the more of the big picture you'll appreciate. At the same time, you can generally play the franchise in discrete arcs that focus on a single country without needing to play the other entries to understand the immediate story. It's also very heavily focused on the characters and the story rather than the gameplay and the writing likes to take its time to set these things up before all the payoffs arrive. Much like the Cosmere there's all kinds of fun to be had trying to predict future developments, then the newest game throws its equivalent of the Sanderson Avalanche at you and leaves you amazed, pleased at the things you got right and then scrambling to rebuild your theories before the next game comes out. Basically, it's an awesome game franchise for people who like RPGs and Brandon's works.

[Shqueeves]

Brandon Sanderson is disappointed by the missed opportunity of calling this thread "BS Facts"

[Podman]

What platform?

Edit: Ninja'd by Shqueeves. He gets an upvote. (not for ninja, for post)

Edited November 29, 2017 by Ookla the Conflusled

[Weltall]

The Trails in the Sky trilogy (the first 'arc') is available on PC and the first two games of the Trails of Cold Steel games (the third arc) are available on Vita and PS3. A PC port of the first Cold Steel game is also now out and a port of the second is on its way, so pretty soon the entire localized series will be available on a single platform. There are also PSP versions of the first two Sky games but not the third. It has to do with when the games got localized versus when they were originally made.

There are also three games that haven't been localized yet, one because it just came out and there hasn't been time yet and the other two (which constitute the second story arc) are likely only a matter of time until they get picked up in some form.

[Podman]

Ah. The game sounds like something I would love! I don't really play games on PC (and I don't have any PSP's or anything like that) but I guess I'll see! Maybe I'll pick up a used PSP on Amazon or something.

[Eluvianii he/him]

Yeah, you should. It's actually a series that deceives people, or at least it deceived me. I avoided it for a long time because it appeared to be just a cliche story in a cliche world with cliche characters. Even when I finally decided to play it I had my doubts because it has a very slow pacing at first, but time proved me wrong. It really pays off after you go through a few chapters and from then on it just never stops surprising you.