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    As others have said, I'm OK when it's relevant to the story. Felurian was fine, all the details felt like they were important and added to the story. George R. R. Martin was over the top. Did we really need to know the shade and texture of every other character's pubic hair? Nope. That stuff to me just seems like it's written by a teenager for other teenagers.
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    Royal Crown Draft Cola. It's made in Australia, but you can only buy it in New Zealand. Made with real sugar cane. Best cola.
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    Wow. I didn't know it was able to be checked out of that library even, I thought people had to read it in the library.
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    Just like modern justice systems, I put a lot of stock in what people's motivations are. If you drive at someone in your car with the intent to kill them, and you succeed, then you're committing murder. If your foot slips onto the accelerator instead of the brake and you accidentally run someone over then it is not murder. Taravangian's ultimate goal is to save the world. All the things he does, things that individually appear evil, he does because he believes that not doing them will doom the world. I usually define evil as doing things for your own benefit, without regard for other people's wants or needs. Taravangian is doing the opposite of this. He's doing it for the benefit of the world. He's doing it, even though it causes him great personal grief on his high empathy/low intelligence days. So, maybe he was wrong about what needs to be done to save the world, that might make his actions evil. Taravangian himself is not evil.
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    I named a Kubrow after Kimmalyn, so she's high on the list. Then I scolded myself for having a Kubrow named Kimmalyn, but not a Kubrow named TenSoon. I now have a Kubrow named Tensoon.
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    Hopefully this is the right subforum for this. I don't usually look at the non-Sanderson stuff. I've seen Jim Butcher recommended enough times in these forums to realise there's a lot of overlap in readership, so ... interview! Also here's an article about the new books
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    Doomslug?
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    Jim Butcher also has TWO new Dresden books scheduled for 2020
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    Storms! Social distancing people! Don't go out and have conversations with people who don't live in your household. Don't go out at all unless you're doing essential work or getting essential supplies.
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    I was thinking that some authors, not naming any names, will probably get a lot MORE written during this time! Of course Brandon will continue to be the book-writing-machine he normally is
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    Be judgey and annoying, like Vivenna
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    Playing pointless games with people you don't really like, like Lightsong (aka videogaming)
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    He said on one of his livestreams that they just got sent a final version of it. But I guess it will still take time to publish? I hope it's not delayed for the need to press it to CD for physical sales
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    Stick sticker
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    Which has me thinking, Mistborn would be better as a tv show imo. Perhaps Joe Straczynski can talk some sense into him and they'll collaborate on Mistborn the tv series XD
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    From State of the Sanderson we have At a guess, I think this will still be in the stage where they'll be waving their scripts at studios and trying to get interest?
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    So true. The Fantastic Beasts series is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of authors jumped into screenwriting and it didn't go well. Not to say it can't go well. Princess Bride was a novel first, and then the same author wrote the screenplay (with screenplay experience, however). One of my favourite films - Hopscotch was also written by the author of the book that came first, that went well. But in general, films of books, I have not enjoyed them. Stardust is an exception. Neil Gaiman does have screenplay writing experience, so it's interesting that he did not write the screenplay for that film (he was one of 3 Producers, however). Edit: turns out the Stardust screenwriter didn't have screenwriting experience either. Wow! I dunno. I feel I don't want to get my hopes up for media-changing. I've come to realise that I just really like books more than most other media.
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    OMGWTFBBQ Mistborn Screenplay - 10%
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    66% Oh, I'm late.
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    The Overdrive system also lets you recommend titles for your library to add.
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    Perhaps it's an artifact from the days when we didn't have software to count words or characters for us?
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    Stormlight 4 Draft 3.0 - 40%
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    100% on the website now
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    From facebook: "Just finished the traditional Wit monologue for the ending of Stormlight Four. (I'd saved writing it until the 2.0 draft.) After several weeks of revision, this marks the finished second draft of the book! (I will do five drafts before I turn it in, finished, sometime around July 1st. Usually, the second draft is the quickest of the five.)"
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