Mystery Project in Sanderson's Status Bar

[Straw he/him]

I'm hoping for a Silverlight novella.

[Unhinged he/him]

4 hours ago, What's a Seawolf? said:

And we will still pour over it for Cosmere Easter Eggs.

And we'll find some too.

And if there aren't any we'll find/make up/think we've found some some anyway.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

Brandon has been trying on and off to write the Dark One, so maybe it finally clicked? Otherwise I’m hoping for a Cosmere short story or novella, Nightblood, or Elantris 2. I highly doubt it’s SH2.

It could be Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, but he’s talked openly about that one... ditto for Rithmatist 2 which is supposed to be on the schedule.

I think the trilogy bar removal was an accident; it’ll probably be back up once OB is out.

[Ammanas]

1 hour ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

Brandon has been trying on and off to write the Dark One, so maybe it finally clicked? Otherwise I’m hoping for a Cosmere short story or novella, Nightblood, or Elantris 2. I highly doubt it’s SH2.

It could be Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians, but he’s talked openly about that one... ditto for Rithmatist 2 which is supposed to be on the schedule.

I think the trilogy bar removal was an accident; it’ll probably be back up once OB is out.

I wonder what story Brandon has been working on the longest. It has to be either the Dark One or Death by Pizza doesn't it?

[Penumbra]

Silverlight or related pls <3. It would be super cool to read and then analyse to pieces for a long time hehe. Although I guess if not Cosmere it'll give me motivation to get into the other series of his after I finish Oathbringer. 

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

I don’t think that would be Mystery Project though. It’s on his SotS. He could just write ‘Cosmere Novella.’

[azizvarlik]

Maybe this one.

The Lost Metal, Wax and Wayne Four, will be my next non-YA novel project. I still intend to write it so that it can come out in 2018. You should see a progress bar for it pop up sometime in the fall of 2017.

[StormingTexan he/him]

Hopefully it works out! 

[Draginon he/him]

@StormingTexan It almost seems weird he would draw attention to a project that *might* not go anywhere. I mean he didn't draw attention to the hot dog story until one of his newsletters posted it. This has to be something he feels confident enough to publish for it to be on the status bar.

[Kaymyth she/her]

4 hours ago, Draginon said:

@StormingTexan It almost seems weird he would draw attention to a project that *might* not go anywhere. I mean he didn't draw attention to the hot dog story until one of his newsletters posted it. This has to be something he feels confident enough to publish for it to be on the status bar.

Or in a momentary lapse of sanity he completely forgot just how rabidly speculative his fandom is.

[The Invested Beard]

8 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

Or in a momentary lapse of sanity he completely forgot just how rabidly speculative his fandom is.

I have a theory about why he may have had a lapse of sanity...

Crap I'm doing it right now aren't I?

[Anagrama]

The timing suggests to me it's the story for White Sand 2 that he'd give to dynamite if they're going to keep the series going after volume 3. They would need it sometime next year, so if he's going to do it, he'll have to knock it out before stormlight 4. 

[Draginon he/him]

6 hours ago, Kaymyth said:

Or in a momentary lapse of sanity he completely forgot just how rabidly speculative his fandom is.

Lapse of sanity?! Does that mean Brandon will be admitted to Arkham Asylum and he'll be Batman's newest enemy known as The Writer? 

Seriously though, does Brandon himself update the bar or does someone else do it for him?

[TheOneKEA]

Here’s my SWAG: It’s a Magic The Gathering novella, written for the same reasons that Brandon wrote the Infinity Blade novellas.

[Steeldancer he/him]

Maybe it'll be something in the cosmere. Something new. A new world? 

Vax?

[The Invested Beard]

My Little Pony/Cosmere crossover.

[Kaymyth she/her]

2 hours ago, The Invested Beard said:

My Little Pony/Cosmere crossover.

I'd read it.

[Nashan’Elin he/him]

33 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

I'd read it.

Same. 

[Steeldancer he/him]

3 hours ago, The Invested Beard said:

My Little Pony/Cosmere crossover.

Shame. We should have a Star Wars crossover first. 

[Draginon he/him]

Looking at his last posted writing schedule I'm wondering if he switched AG2 and the random novella.

[Angsos]

My vote is he accidentally wrote a book much earlier than planned and doesn't want to tell anyone in case he wants a rainy day book.

[+Slowswift]

9 hours ago, The Invested Beard said:

My Little Pony/Cosmere crossover.

Already wrote it.  

[Hemalurgist]

In an interview he said he just figured out the outline for Dark One. So that might be the mystery project.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfIb8kxpIq8

Start at 44 minute mark. 

[Shadowmancer he/him]

Quote

[On the Dark One] I’ve made good progress on the setting, which is going to be awesome. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the teen series I do once the Reckoners and the Rithmatist are both done. [State of the Sanderson, 2014]

This with the quote about Wax and Wayne being his next non-YA makes me think it isn't Dark One (though I realize Dark One is YA). I like the idea of him starting something spontaneously because he was suddenly in the mood, though. I hope it's Cosmere, so we have something to tide us over for a while after Oathbringer.

Edited October 27, 2017 by Shadowmancer

[Farnsworth]

He said it was a project, not a book, so he could just be building a park bench. With plot twists of course.

Or, it's book with the plot written by Sanderson, actually fleshed out into works by Rothfuss, with occasional humor injections from Pratchet. Happiness in rectangular form.