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Super cool! Welcome to the Shard!

22 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

What’s your favourite part about writing? Is it developing an idea into something more? Making your characters suffer and putting them through eternal torment? Staring at the roof for two hours wondering whether you’ll ever finish that first draft?

For me I just love seeing a good comeback from a character (a lot like Kal's current arc). To see a character go from the lowest of lowest and somehow finding the strength to get up is just beautiful to me.

22 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

Why do you write? What motivates you? 

I geuss it's mainly I just love telling a story and I can use characters to be an aspect that I aspire to be.

22 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

What’s your least favourite part about writing? Because let’s face it, nothing is 100% enjoyable all of the time. (Unless it is for you, which in that case, can you please teach me your ways?)

Editing. Do I need to say more?

23 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

Are you more of a plot or character driven writer?

Character, by far. Although usually my ideas start as plot ideas and I'll add characters in.

23 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

Do you like hard or soft magic systems, or something in between? Or no magic system at all?

Hard. I read Sanderson, so I'm just a tiny bit biased.

23 hours ago, The Awakened Salad said:

What’s your favourite genre/subgenre to write in? Do you only stick to one genre, or do you write across genres?

Favorite genre is fantasy, but I do try to only do short stories that are not fantasy.

14 minutes ago, Chinkoln said:

I need some help searching WoB. I am considering writing a book, but I have a question. What is Brandon’s copyright policy, and what would y’all consider “okay” to use? I am obviously not going to put a big destructive storm in my book, or 3 distinct realms, but I might want to have a universe and center it around a number. Thoughts?

Brandon has a section on his website about his copyright policy, https://www.brandonsanderson.com/rights-inquiries/

I read the WoK in 2 weeks, than a few days later WoR in another 2 weeks and the next day started on OB which I finished in 10 days.

5 hours ago, rjl said:

1. With Shardplate do you need a shield?
2. Radiant weapons can be anything they need to be
3. Though I suppose having a backup weapon/shield could be useful sometimes, we're yet to see much in this direction though

 

So, far no one has broken a shardblade or shardtool, but we have seen shardplate break. Plus, it would be a lot more affective at covering eye slits and while... we've seen people die from a knife in the eye, so I would say you could use a shield with shard plate.

3 hours ago, Emi said:

You meant Mraize?

Yeah, I should have know I spelled it wrong when the red dots didn't show up. 

Jasnah, Vin, Marize

@Choas where did your profile picture come from (or any of the other Mods)?

Unfortunately, he is immortal.

What character and at what time do you want to punch in the face most (in the Cosmere)?

So I read the book and I liked it a decent amount. I went on the read the sequel which just fell apart at the end. But about the first books, the ending was (in my opinion) very unsatisfying.

It really depends on the time for me. Towards the beginning of the WoK Shallan was really boring at least to me (upon a reread she is quite a bit more interesting especially since I know her motives). But, in the end, it has to go to Rysn. I just feel as though she doesn't really have much plot or character. I know a ton of people love her, but she is, in my opinion, the most boring SA character.

3 hours ago, Karger said:

Ick!  The girl Dalinar is supposed to marry is fourteen.  She seems like an interesting character but couldn't you age her at least a tad?  As is this is just sooo wrong even if the marriage was not his idea and will remain unconsumated.

I find it hilarious how weird you think arranged marriage is and for someone with that much of an age difference. I lived in India for 3 years and marriages like that are very common.

Welcome! Do you have a favorite character?

Keep reading. You see some Herald stuff that really helps boost the Oathbringer ending. 

2 hours ago, Crusadeus said:

In Oathbringer, Chapter 91 "Why He Froze", pg. 870, it says this...

"Kal gripped his chisel tightly, fighting down the urge to stand up and go looking for Tien. Didn't they understand? Tien couldn't hurt cremlings. He'd catch the things and usher them outside, talking to them like pets. The image of him holding a spear was ludicrous."

My thought is this. Tien is/was in communication with the Sleepless. It may even be possible that as a Lightweaver, Tien, may have faked his death and is working with the Sleepless, possibly protecting the Dawnshard on Aimia. Its just an odd comment that Tien would talk to the cremlings. We have been told to watch out for odd cremlings in the books. This is odd.

Thoughts?

I don't think that Tien is alive, both because of Kal's arc and because Brandon just isn't that nice. But, we do know that he was a Radiant.

23 minutes ago, PrinceGenocide said:

I think it's cause they interpret division as not fire but lightning. Makes more sense for flying radiants to have access to cloudspren??? or simply molecules in clouds , rub them together and viola . Lightning.

And doesn't lightning look like the sky is being shattered like a pane of glass ? If only for a moment. 

Hence the name skybreakers

There is a Shardcast episode that briefly mentions this theory, but in more of a joking manner. This is where I always hoped that Brandon would take this Order, but I don't know if that would be to overpowered for an Order. Like on a battle field, if you have a large group moving just send out 2-3 Skybreakers to blow them up. But man, I do love this theory.

Since a Mistborn main job is basically to kill people, most would probably disuse them selves as Coinshots, but in a political setting a seeker would probably be more useful.

13 hours ago, Harrycrapper said:

Actually, what we know is he will have the flashbacks for that book. Brandon could pull another Eshonai and kill him before we get there.

He'd better not!

1 hour ago, thejopen27 said:

Who will be the first Stoneward we see?

I don't think we have conformation about that but we do know that Taln will be the Stoneward for book 7.

So I almost never remember my dreams, but the times that I do I've never been a different gender.

Um, did you eat a copy of WoR? 

On 6/18/2020 at 1:29 PM, Elegy said:

No, there's actually a pretty big part of the ATLA fanbase that vocally dislikes it. A lot of people complain about how every season is a complete story, but I don't think that's the actual problem. It shouldn't have held them back from actually developing the characters or creating tension with situations that feel like they have stakes. They just didn't do it and missed so many opportunities to make the series actually compelling that I find it weird that it's from the same creators who made the original, which is a masterpiece in most of the things that LOK lacks in. That said, I personally think it's okay, at the bottom line. It's technically more advanced than the original series, the action scenes are very well-done and the music is great. There's two characters that I like a lot (Lin and Tenzin), but even those don't really have any significant arc, they mostly just are who they are and I like who they are. So, there's stuff to love and I understand why other people like it. But yeah, the complete experience just felt very hollow to me.

Yeah, I didn't have a problem with the seasons having individual conflicts. But I would have changed the order keep season 1 where it is (it has probably the conflict of any season, but it didn't do a good job handling it). I would make season 4 the second season then keep season 3 where it is and have season 2 for the grand finale. 

So, I just finished LOK and I had so many problems with it, am I the only one or do a lot of people have issues with it?

Well I got Windrunner (which I'm very proud about) but I still think I'm more of a Stoneward.