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This is something I realized in the car today after watching the latest episode of the final season. In case you're not acquainted : SANDERSON’S FIRST LAW : AN AUTHOR’S ABILITY TO SOLVE CONFLICT WITH MAGIC IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO HOW WELL THE READER UNDERSTANDS SAID MAGIC. So... Immediately, I'm met with the problem that everything I can say is a spoiler. And I want everyone to watch Attack On Titan to the end because I love it for exactly the same reasons I love Sanderson Novels. So I'll sum it up like this : This series could have easily ended in season 1 if the characters knew then, what they know by the end of season 4. And if they did that, it would've sucked. But instead, it's filled with nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat-tension the entire way through Start of Season 1 : Magic Knowledge : Nothing Conflict Resolution : 100% military End of Season 1 / Start of Season 2 : Magic Knowledge : Beginner Conflict Resolution : 75% military, 25% magic End of Season 2 / Start of Season 3 : Magic Knowledge : Journeyman Conflict Resolution : 50% military, 50% magic End of Season 3 / Start of Season 4 : Magic Knowledge : Expert Conflict Resolution : 25% military, 75% magic End of Season 4 : Magic Knowledge : Master Conflict Resolution : 100% magic Even still, the story is always, first and foremost, about character. Yeah, there's big naked people doing big naked things. But the non-naked people are always the main focus And also sometimes action set-pieces TLDR : WATCH THIS ANIME!!!

I don't think I'd want to go all in on one just commissioned myself, since I know how prohibitively expensive that sort of thing is even on the lower-end. But if there are any resin, polystone, etc custom statues being made, I would be very interested in potentially purchasing one

so that’s why I bought it I mean I do love One Piece And I love Luffy and I only watched NeZha for the first time tonight while I was unboxing this but it’s really good, you guys. Check it out. You won’t regret it. Some dumb side-gags, but otherwise great character writing. And also it’s utterly beautiful the whole way through and there’s a real Sanderson kind of thing going on with dragons. Anyway... I have no idea how to undo the rotation this forum applies to these when I upload them

Hell yeah. The most fun part about it for me, is that it’s 100% falsifiable. All Brandon needs to do to disprove it, is say the name of either the book he’s talking about, or it’s author. if—of course—such a person even exists...

He mentioned it again in his most recent YouTube video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QZXBKbg9p4E And the more I thought about it, the less sense it made that he never mentioned the name. Or that the author he’s talking about had simply never wanted the publicity? Not only that, but at this point with how much he’s teased this long-con fantasy subversion story, the only thing Brandon is really doing, is preventing that author from benefitting from his audience of aspiring writers. It doesn’t make sense. Which is fine. People have wrong ideas sometimes. But then I realized. That’s because it’s poorly written. As a plot. For shame, Brandon. I rarely spot this level of plot hole. If only you had applied your writing instincts to your own web of lies... Because I said out loud to my fiancé just now as we sat listening to your most recent video and talking about it in the comments: “OH rust!” “I BET IT WAS HIS PEN NAME!” “HE PUBLISHED THAT THING HES TALKING ABOUT WITH AN ABANDONED PEN NAME AND IT NEVER WENT ANYWHERE!” And so there we have it. The search is on. We need this. No, like, think about it. It’s out there. So... I WILL FIND YOUR SECRET SHAME-BOOK, BRANDON SANDERSON! AND I WILL GIVE YOU MONEY THROUGH THAT PEN NAME! AND THEN I WILL ADVERTISE IT! (like, at least I’ll tell all the big groups and stuff) ... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

So I love anime statues and I love Stormlight Archive The Knights Radiant as a series of ten high quality resin statues I mean think about it. Assuming you have the talent and resources (and possibly a professional studio) to design and implement such a thing, which I don’t, but many do, the money practically makes itself

Not a novel, but Naruto Shippuden has one of the best climaxes I’ve ever seen in anything. it’s a massive battle including just about everyone in the cast, and the stakes escalate several dozen times, to the point that by the end of it, there’s an entirely power scale at play compared to when it starts, the magic system and its origins have been fully explored, and the main antagonist has changed 3 times over (more if you count switching back and forth). It’s one avalanche that I don’t think even Sanderson can match in a single go. literally the entire 4th Ultimate Ninja Storm game takes place just within that one massive battle. which occurs over the course of a single night. for over 100 episodes.

Nah, I thought I was being original with it since I just happen to really like that clip. I’m not surprised though; it was an easy dot to connect after reading RoW.

“I Will Protect Those Who Were Written to Be Protected”

I'm also going to be adding any of the extra talks he's given about the writing process (as opposed to details about the books themselves.) Luckily, it seems that all you need to do is say "writing" somewhere in his general vicinity and he'll immediately shoot over to you and give an impromptu lecture about it.

So this past year, Brandon uploaded the 2020 classes to his YouTube channel But he teaches the class every year and they don’t have a script or anything, so they are different every year. In content, in examples, in stream of consciousness, even sometimes in cases where he’s changed his mind on something if you’re interested in writing professionally, or just a fan of his and want to find out his thought process and ideology around writing, I highly recommend literally all of them you can find so far, I’ve found, and put in the following order, 2020, 2016, 2014, 2013, and 2012 if I find more years or individual lectures not in there, I’ll add those in as well.

Audiobook chapter 39 12:00 or so To Kaladin: “ .., Relain Asked?” Delivered as though it were part of the question might be a creative choice thing, but it really stuck out to me as odd. In fact, my fiancé and I kept rewinding it and Laughing at the delivery.

Is that a rule? I legitimately don’t know. if it is, I’ll delete one of them. I posted it here and in the RoW board both, because it seems to me that at the moment, both boards have entirely different audiences, and this is a rare example of something that is both specifically relevant to RoW, while not being an actual spoiler. That, in contrast to most other stuff on that board, which is extremely spoiler-heavy, to the point that having only completed Part 2 myself so far, I vehemently regret spoiling myself on the fact that <redacted> kills <redacted>

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I actually really like the idea of Szeth dying in book 2 then they could go to Shinovar later and the flashback sequences could have been from him figuring out the world was ending. That could even be a way to tell us, the readers, things about the world that even the main characters don’t know yet because Kaladin killed the only guy who knew. Besides, it would be such an amazing move to kill him there and really drive home the idea that no one in this world is safe. Even the strongest there is. Between that, Kaladin, Shallan, Moash, and Jasnah (maybe among others) surviving certain death offscreen, I’m getting way too certain that central characters just don’t ever die unless you literally see it happen I’m more than half expecting Eshonai to have lived through the last book and become a fused or something Honestly, every time I read about these things that Brandon got talked out of doing, I get depressed at how much better it would have been Like how Raoden’s brother from Elantris is my favorite character who never existed in any book.

Maybe like a rotspren? I think they behave like moles or literally any other spren because you know... rotspren are gross

I forget the exact specifics. I seem to remember it being that he was on a panel with the guy. But I could be wrong. Given the context of how Brandon talks about the experience, I’d be surprised if the book was nominated for anything. Sounds like he simply missed his target audience and never really took off.

The only correct way to pronounce Kaladin is with this intonation

Let me first say that Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author. Full stop. So, this is very much a nitpick and I have no intention to stop reading his work, nor would I suggest anyone do so for this reason. But I could keep qualifying how huge of a fan I am forever. In leu of that, I'll just get right to it. through reread after reread of his various series, I noticed a pattern. As far as I'm concerned, he is easily top of the fantasy world in terms of his settings, lore, plot progression, world-building, and ESPECIALLY magic systems. But Brandon's characters, especially in multi-book series, have always struck me as a little weak. And I could never quite put my finger on why. But I think I figured it out. Brandon is famously an outline writer. If he has a series, he starts by planning out the entire series. That means after book 1, the world, people, etc need to be in a specific place, both emotionally and literally. Same for book 2, 3, and so on. Within the context of a single book, he plans out something similar where everyone and everything needs to be in a specific place a the end of act 1, another specific place by the end of act 2, and so on (or the end of a part in regards to Stormlight) But then, he discovery-writes the character interactions. Overall, I like this method because it makes the characters seem defined by more than just their role, while moving the plot forward. But it's a bit of a double-edged sword, too. I've noticed that while macro character changes are retained, micro character changes are sometimes abandoned by the start of the next act, or part, or ESPECIALLY book. I first noticed this with Shallan. She'll have a very deep, personal revelation in one chapter, and then she will seem to have forgotten all about it by the next time we see from her perspective. This effect is typically more obvious from one part to the next. And it's just blatant (once I thought to look for it) between books. How she views other characters, and especially herself by the end of certain scenes, just don't seem to #Stick. I now believe that's because those particular character moments and realizations weren't pre-planned, and so they unfortunately got dropped in the midst of trying to juggle so much else in such a complicated story. Brandon is usually good about maintaining world lore things. The hard facts Shallan knows and the things she can do with her powers are stable. But her mental state is not. Originally, I chalked this up to her own personal mental issues. But I think it makes her seem a little more mentally unstable than seems to be intended. And the same can be seen for other characters as well. Take Kaladin. By the end of book 1, he is a whole new person compared to when he started. He knows more about the world, about his powers, he's literally stronger, he has all these things changed about him. At the start of book 2 though, he's just as strong as where he left off at the end of book 1. He's just as knowledgeable, his relationships have maintained, etc. But I would posture that aside from his powers, aside from his relationships, aside from his status in society, and only in regards to his own mental state and self-actualization, he's closer to the Kaladin in Chapter 1 of Way of Kings, than the Kaladin we saw at the end of the book. The same is true for Vin in Mistborn. She's stronger, more capable, etc. But her own mental state and especially how she regards her relationship with Elend, degrades from the end of book 1, to the start of book 2. And then again from the end of book 2, to the start of book 3. This is mostly explainable by the sheer trauma she experiences at the end of literally every book, but I think this trend plays into it as well. I can keep going with other characters, but this post is already long enough. So what do you think? Have you noticed this in his writing? Am I just totally off-base?

I was trying to be vague enough not to spoil it. But if you don’t care about Hunter X Hunter spoilers, just Google it. There’s plenty of YouTube clips basically, a character is having a tough time fighting an enemy, easily stronger than them. that whole fight happens, the character is nearly killed, and then Killua shows up, slowly walks forward, casually does something similar to going super Saiyan for the first time on-camera, and then proceeds to lay an effortless smack down on this enemy who we’ve only ever seen overpower all opponents thus far. it’s just an awesome moment that I imagined being adapted into someone doing the same thing, but as they’re walking forward, they erupt in Stormlight, simultaneously summoning their blade, and save whoever. my main point was that with the way Stormlight powers work, as well as shardblades, they lend themselves so well to epic entrances and quick, flashy, satisfying fights, that you could practically get people to watch it just for those bits if you do them well. yeah it would be a lot of money, but it’s popular enough and the potential for a great visual experience is high enough, that it seems like a no-brainer to adapt it. More so even than any other un-adapted property that I know of

I mean come on How is this not picked up as a series already?