All Authors Have The Work Ethic Of Brandon Sanderson

[Bookworm]

So i was just thinking, what if all authors had the work ethic of Brandon Sanderson, like seriously what would happen? My thoughts are that winds of winter will be done, and the third Kingskiller book would be out so, what else

 

[Blaze1616 he/him]

Well, Jordan would have finished WoT on his own, ASoIaF would be done as well, I suspect. I'm actually not certain about Kingkiller, considering that I've heard it's the drive for perfection that makes the wait so long, not Rothfuss's procrastination.

[vineyarddawg]

Shoot, the entire Song of Ice and Fire would have been done a decade ago. We'd be onto the Song of Pools of Water and Smoldering Ash by now. 

[Kobold King he/him]

Middle-Earth would have been a setting that encompassed three trilogies, a ten book series, and countless smaller works that ultimately lead up to a forty-book saga. Peter Jackson would become rich enough to buy his own planet.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Middle-Earth would have been a setting that encompassed three trilogies, a ten book series, and countless smaller works that ultimately lead up to a forty-book saga. Peter Jackson would become rich enough to buy his own planet.

Would he name it Middle-Earth?

[Argent he/him]

I am reminded of this. I trust you can guess which line depicts Brandon's writing rate.

[king of nowhere]

It's not a matter of working ethics, but how much you can actually write. I wrote a book myself (nothing grand, it was some satire, and while several people told me that they liked it, it sold no more than a few hundred copies; I had never even considered publishing it except that one of those guys who liked it has a small publishing house), and some days I would sit in front of the pc and wrote several pages on a rush, while other days I would sit in front of the pc, stare the screen blankly, write some lines then reject them, and ended up closing the file one hour later without having advanced a single word.

To write something meaningful you need inspiration, and that's not something you can conjure up. It's not a matter of working ethics. Doing creative work is not like carrying bricks. You can't really control your rate of advancement. I am really astonished that sanderson manages to do just that.

 

P.S. Argent, do you also happen to have a link to the full article? I'd like to read what it says.

[Quiver he/him]

Middle-Earth would have been a setting that encompassed three trilogies, a ten book series, and countless smaller works that ultimately lead up to a forty-book saga. Peter Jackson would become rich enough to buy his own planet.

Isn't that pretty much what Christopher Tolkien has been doing for years?

[Left he/him]

So i was just thinking, what if all authors had the work ethic of Brandon Sanderson, like seriously what would happen? My thoughts are that winds of winter will be done, and the third Kingskiller book would be out so, what else

I would like to say that I'm pretty sure Rothfuss works really hard and writes a lot, he goes through literally hundreds of drafts for his books. H really focuses a lot more on quality, nawh, perfection, in his books while Brandon just gives us hordes of amazingness.

[Argent he/him]

P.S. Argent, do you also happen to have a link to the full article? I'd like to read what it says.

 

It was a Reddit post.

[Bremen]

and we might not have the Foundation series or iRobot

 

on the plus side Kevin J Anderson probably wouldn't have written so many Dune books

[natc]

Many amazing things mankind can achieve if everyone could take a break from writing a book by writing a different book, then potentially accidentally write the sequel as well. Or the analog of that im their respective fields.