JamesW

wanted him to

Glad to see you guys got an alpha reading group set up, hope to someday rejoin with you all. 

Hey and such to you all while I'm here!

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/08/the-way-of-kings-magnet-set-sweepstakes

I'm sure most of you have seen this, or saw Brandon Post about it on Twitter, but regardless many here might be interested in these.

As a related aside, I would love to see these available for purchase. If we showed enough interest does anyone think we could get them made/sold?

Yes yes it is. My fiancee kept that stuff right next to the bed, which you can see the corner of in the right side of the picture. 

Also included:

1 Plushie Christmas piggy from Angry Birds

2 Hourglasses that run upward

1 Razer mouse

1 Teemo Hat

1 Gift box containing 2 bowls from our Japanese exchange student

1 Tin Whistle (for music and stuffs)

And various other pieces of junk. 

This was my bookcase before I moved, after the move those books are now all in boxes...

I am excellent at voice projection, but for some reason I lack either the demeanor or the attitude, or the force behind yelling at someone/thing that gives it it's "kick"

I can't yell at people or animals.

Let me clarify, I'm a 6'3" 250+lb guy. I'm going to be a teacher and look intimidating enough that I probably never need to yell.

But last night I tried to yell at two dogs to stop fighting. My Fiancee burst into laughter, telling me that I couldn't yell at anything. I tried again, trying to get the dogs to separate. At the end of this she was in tears from laughing too hard.

Good thing I'm not an angry person. 

I wish I had the Tenth Heightening.

Upon reaching the Tenth Heightening, you are gifted with the knowledge that all of your reality is a lie. You and everyone you care about exist only as a breath of a higher being. You live the rest of your life depressed, unable to tell those around you that their reality is a lie.

I wish I was a gold twinborn.

We should Alloy together to Ruin this thread before it gets out of hand.

Well I figure I'll throw mine up, since I actually have one that I liked.

Dinriel stood before the armored Sentinel practicing a magic punishable by death and trying to lie his way out of spending the night in the a prison cell.

Haha, perhaps group brainstorming session was a bit ambitious of a title, Maybe other people haven't thought of stuff like this or don't wanna share because it's too awesome

And thanks for the suggestions, I like those, and I like your line of thinking on these things. Most of what I've been thinking on are things such as weapons and small contraptions that can be used for self defense or device type combat.

Thanks for the density thing, I knew what I was thinking before I typed it out.

If you're working with combinations then you'll use a mix of light. For example if you're working with molten metal, then you'd need to use red and yellow together. Same with mercury, which is special to say the least.

Different physical materials can be modified using different colors of light.

Metal (Red), Stone (Orange), Liquid(Yellow), Organics(Green).

Violet modifies the existing light, preventing it from being affected by others who use the magic, or enabling some external trigger to modify the element using the other colors of light (Like triggering a sudden pressure change in the air to push something onto somebody, or metal to shape around someone to form restraints).

Blue modifies gases, but can also function to modify weight of an object. It wouldn't lower the density but think like a small bubble of less dense gas surrounding an object pulling it up (Think helium balloon pulling something up by a string).

Not sure if that helps, but I'm thinking of other cool gadgets and crafts and such that can be made (Repeating hand crossbow, dart shooting things, mechanical calculator, stuff like that)

I don't think I can stop. I guess I must just Forge ahead.

I Awakened to this thread, how dull.

I laughed so hard I hurt my Kholin.

Oresure ya wanna start these kind of puns?

You're making puns? You must be Trell-ing us.

This Heralds the start of something terrible.

I feel obligator-ed to stop writing puns soon.

I'll be crossing a Bridge Four my drive to school today.

Kwann I stop making these?

Reprint hardcovers. 14 book box set for hardcovers.

Comes with a 2 hour truck rental.

I haven't crossed the two systems (Technology/magic) as intricately as I could, mostly because of the nature of my plot and the relative low prevalence of magic users, but I like your ideas.

Most of the magic is used in the creation of these metal works, or it can be used to craft them. Basically you can create gears/pieces that are as precise as you can see, namely if you can see it, using magnification or with the naked eye, you can make it that tiny and detailed.

So I need some help with brainstorming for the new book I'm starting. I don't want to take numerous breaks to research random devices so I'm gonna throw this out there and see what people have rattling around their brains that they'd like to share.

Basically, I'm writing a fantasy novel but the main city has an economy based largely on valuable devices crafted to precision. Most of these are metal since that's the primary resource available to the city.

So here's the question: What cool devices do you wish you saw in books? What neat gadgets do you think would be cool to see in a book?

I'm looking for suggestions, and I'm hoping to build a pool of these things that I can draw from when I need to set a scene, or have someone using randomly.

Any help is appreciated, even simple devices, like watches, clocks, music boxes, random things that I didn't think of would be helpful!

Thanks again!

A very boring backwater redneck town in northern California. Went to school at UCLA which was awesome. Finished there and now I'm home.

Technically I'm "From" a very very tiny (Read: Population 148, but was about 50 when I was there) town in the mountains east of Visalia California. The town is called Badger, and the majority of the population were Hindi, or Hindus, or however you pluralize that.

The town had something like 1 tiny bar/grill, and 1 market/Uhaul rental/Public pool/Gas Station/Resturaunt/Video Rental/Hotel place, which ended up closing down because it didn't do enough business. The most interesting thing that would ever happen would be someones car breaking down, or going off the icy roads into a ditch and my dad and I having to go tow their car out.

My elementary school was K-8, one room school house. There were a total of 9 students there when I was a student, though that number peaked to 13 at one point. I wasn't there much past third grade, we moved and I started fourth grade at a school near where I live now.

Updated to include Writeaboutdragons!

Why is there things he can`t tell us?

The series is done, shouldn`t we be allowed to know everything that he knows?

There are also things that Brandon doesn't even know, nor does he have an explanation for.

Did I mention, Spoilers?

http://www.tor.com/b...rs-from-torchat

This is just a summary of answers that Brandon gave during the Q&A, there are several BIG questions that he didn't or couldn't answer.

Minecraft. Minecraft everywhere. Need new ideas on stuff to build though, am open to suggestions.

I would like to announce that if I receive passing scores in my exams, I am officially a graduate from UCLA with a Bachelors in Mathematics for Teaching.

This also means an end to my hiatus and hopefully a resurgence of productivity on my book, which was on hold for my last quarter of college.

That is one wacky-REDACTED Coppermind skin, dude.

EDIT: Also, I made that article at James's behest

Are you talkin bout me! The bacon hater? I approve.