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It looks like Dreamer has you stocked up with questions, so I will just say hello and welcome!!! I hope you find many like minded people here!

Welcome to the Shard, and welcome to everything Cosmere and beyond! I agree with @Dreamer let us know your thoughts when you are done! Most of us (including myself) started with Mistborn. I'd have to say olives for toes. I am already a klutz, so I feel like they wouldn't affect me worse than I already am. However, I need my hands for writing! Green beans don't sound very dexterous.

In my opinion, best way to drink Coca Cola is the glass bottle variety imported from Mexico!

You're well read then! Hopefully you'll enjoy all of the theories, discussions, fan art, and more that are all over this forum!

Hello and welcome! Tell us a bit about yourself! What's your favorite Sanderson book?

Just found out that one of my friends (who has lung issues) has just been hospitalized. He's been sick for the last ten days, but we were hoping it was just the Influenza A that was going around (he and his family have been quarantining for two weeks now). The hospital can't/won't test him, but it is almost certainly COVID-19. He's hitting every single marker and timeline. They've taped over his singular window and aren't allowing visitors. I've been texting him and I've put everything on hold to paint him a scene for the nurses to tape over his window. He's keeping his good humor and jokes that the bed feels like Motel 6. The family is religious, and I'd like to ask that if you pray or know someone who does, I'd really appreciate it if you put my friend on any prayer lists that you know of.

Man, I feel you there. I'm in California and we're supposed to restart school April 17th - considering we're up to three cases in the last week, no way that is going to happen. I sub regularly for several classes and there's so much that I want to say to so many of my students. Some of them are going to be hit so hard academically, while many I worry for from a social/emotional standpoint. Some of my kids are still living in garages and trailers from the fire. I was supposed to come along with one fourth grade class to a week long camping trip to Monterey. I've been looking forward to it since last year when I went with the previous class. I'll miss watching my fifth graders graduate. Won't see another class's musical production that they have been working for months on. Many of my special education students are moving...I'll never get to say goodbye to them. And as the sub, I'll probably never get a chance to say goodbye to any of them. How many will I see next year? How many will be forced to move south to cities for jobs? I keep trying to put a positive spin on everything, try to keep the optimism going, but I can't find a happy outlook towards how this is affecting my schools and students.

Hello and welcome! Have any favorite hobbies and interests? Tell us a bit about yourself!

Hello! Fanart is always welcomed with open arms!

Welcome! I remember having the same reaction after I read Elantris, which was after I had read Mistborn eras 1 and 2, the Reckoners, The Rithmatist, and Warbreaker. The fact that Sanderson continually works on improving his craft is one of the main reasons he is one of my favorite authors. I strongly admire lifelong learners. I listen to him on Writing Excuses talking about the mistakes he made in his early books and what he has learned, and all I can think is how absolutely incredible his career will continue to be if he never stops improving.

Dude, that is so cool!

Ahsoka Tano is by far my favorite character. Clone Wars might be ending, but this is not goodbye!

@Arthur Haywood Glad you enjoyed my paintings. The rumptifusel was really fun to take from its original myth and turn it into something Alturian. One day, I'm hoping to illustrate the book I'm currently revising. I've followed you back, and I can't wait to see more of your art! Still jealous about your patience with oils!

I've never read The White Stag, but this sounds great! Once my library reopens, I'll have to see if they have a copy.

You've got my everlasting respect painting with oils. I'm much too impatient. Painted a pear once with oils in high school and decided it just wasn't for me. My website is https://worldofalturas.com and you can find me under @worldofalturas on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, DeviantArt, and on my (very new) YouTube channel. I'm most active on Instagram, although hoping to become more active in general once revising stops kicking my butt.

@Channelknight Fadran Yes, you can get writing critiqued over at Reading Excuses! You have the opportunity every week to fill one of the five slots (which isn't typically an issue) and submit via email (so that your writing is floating around the web) up to 5,000 words. By having only five submissions a week, it ensures that everyone is given quality critiques. We have everyone, from sheer beginners, to published authors.

This is in response to another thread, where instead of focusing on book recommendations, we all ended up floating down memory lane. What was your favorite book/book series when you were a kid? What were you obsessed with? What remains close to your heart, and what do you cringe over now?

Oh my gosh, this is genius and I'm totally using this on my friends now. As a teacher, this is my favorite COVID-19 joke I've seen so far:

Dang! You are quite the artist! Glad to have you in our ranks! What's your favorite medium? You paint so fluidly and cleanly I'm not sure if you are using oil or acrylics or what. I went digital a couple of years ago, but I still have a soft spot for watercolors. I sketch almost entirely with Dixon Ticonderoga pencils.

For me, elementary school was when I was obsessed with Warriors by Erin Hunter. Those first four series are serious nostalgia for me.

I can respect your opinion! I only read the first one because one of my students was so obsessed that she memorized the entire prophecy. I hold different expectations for younger grade books that the books that I typically pick up by choice. I enjoyed them for what they were, and if a person doesn't like them, that's totally fine by me! If I recommend them, some stranger reads them and loves them, then they are suddenly a part of a currently active community. Which is nice. I agree with this recommendation. I've read both Eon and Eona twice.

Hello, hello, from one writer to another! I've written more cringe-worthy things than I can count, but I'm currently revising a book I finished in December and am hoping to get some critiques on it in April over at Reading Excuses. Isn't writing the most frustrating, fantastic thing ever?

Today one of the tortoises, Bulldozer, decided he wanted to join the fun too.

So glad that the social distancing doesn't apply to pets!

I'd have to say the PS4's God of War. Ripped my heart to shreds, with stunning graphics and an amazing fighting system. That or Red Dead Redemption 2, which made me cry, let me ride the best graphic horses I've ever seen, and play some hilarious (and some disturbing) side quests. On the other hand, I STILL accidentally shoot people. The controls are horrible. I picked up Assassin's Creed: Odyssey for $15 yesterday, and I'm curious to see how it will be.