The Isochronism

Feed them brains. Which of the following are cute: Hulk, Mario, Thanos, that one creepy guy, my pet rock, Yoda, Baby Yoda. (If anyone corrects me I'll murder someone)

What is the least valuable thing your hamster has ruined? You'd be surprised.

Random thought: If you think about it, reading is just looking at an old piece of wood and hallucinating.

Am I the only one who finds shardle extremely difficult? Like, I thought I would know some of these things, but in all the time I've been playing I haven't gotten a single answer. It's quite annoying. I think it's a good game though, it's just a lot harder than I shout It'd be.

This cover is awesome. Easily the best of the four imo.

Here's the topic for this, I'm exited to hear any feedback you guys have!

Is it weird that makes it even cooler? I'm exited to be able to read your book at some point!

Alrighty, I have thoughts. My first thought is, I am not even a little qualified to have thoughts on this. I am brand new here, and this is the first I've read of OMaM, so please feel free do disregard everything I say. Still, I have thoughts, so I'm going to proceed. First, quick fixes. Grammatical stuff that won't take you long to look at. I cannot stress enough how minuscule these concerns are. Keep in mind, I'm not your editor, and I am not even that educated in editorial ways, so again, feel free to disregard. P. 6 "Agetha said. Even though he would have been considered an adult back on the ships." (I would use a comma here instead of a period. "Agetha said, even though he would have been considered an adult back on the ships." I'm no editor, but the period feels... Jarring? I don't know.) P.15 "He nearly jumped as a person walked behind him, reaching for the ‘thrower he wasn’t wearing." (The apostrophe in front of 'thrower' is facing the wrong way. I think. Sorry, ids that a thing? I feel like it should match the one in 'wasn't' because now they look like single quotation marks.) P.20 "Rajani gasped suddenly and Jane jerked her head to the other Admin." (I'd cut the suddenly. I always cut suddenly, because it always feels a bit out of place. Ultimately, it's your call though, if you think it fits, it fits.) Alright, now for the larger fixes. This part was good, but... it felt like an epilogue. I (Without knowing what action preceded this) feel like we already received the end of the story, and this part gives me the vibe that we're tying up loose threads. And that's not the problem. The problem is that it goes on for some time. It just feels a bit long for an epilogue, you know? I want it to be quicker, more punchy. There's a chance that's just me, but I just like to finish a story pretty fast. I usually want to finish a story in one go after the climax, so I would be annoyed if I thought I was done, but I still have another 26 pages to go, you know? Also, the time jumps. There was just so many! Four time jumps feels like too many for one chapter. I feel like you could have: a ) tried to make it all happen around the same time, so we don't have to keep track of all the jumping, or b ) cut a few of the sections. You mentioned you have a sequel and another sequel, but try not to feel the need to shove all the characters back into their starting locations of the next book if you've already written it. (I'm not saying that's what you're doing, because as I stated earlier, I'm not qualified to have such thoughts, but still, it's something to consider.) And best for last, the good things. Firstly, the writing was good. Not just good, excellent. The story carried me without me even thinking about the fact that this is the first draft of an unpublished book. It felt smooth, and the dialogue felt natural. I can tell that you've been writing for a while. Secondly, I loved the scene where Anderson is walking through the market, and seeing things. (Although it could have done without the sex workers, unless that's part of his arch or something. Again, I don't know very much about this story.) But that scene with Anderson's book and everything was great. That is what I want to see in an epilogue. It felt like this scene kind of carried the entire part. Thirdly, the scene with the babies. I don't know if you've showed babies eating their parents before, but if not then what a way to go out! It's just so creepy, and awesomely so! It sets your world apart, and it adds a layer of mystery that makes me want to see more. And that's only slightly undercut if we've seen these babies before, I still think it made a good scene. In conclusion: It's good. I like it. You're probably looking at me like I'm insane right now, because I got the totally wrong impression from something, but we do what we must because we can. So keep working, look over the whole thing, and see what you notice. Because you probably want to scream something like: WHAT ABOUT THE ORANGE BANANA ON PAGE THIRTEEN! I'VE BEEN SETTING THAT UP THIS WHOLE BOOK! or something, but we'll call it legal. I probably missed a few important things, and got the wrong impression from some irrelevant things, so I'm sorry. Hope this was helpful in some way, shape, or form.

This is a kind of late reply, but I'd be happy to submit my first thing since there's so many empty slots. It's my first week though so maybe I should wait a bit before I submit? Please advise... If nobody replies, I'll just wait until later to submit stuff.

Do you write? What genre of music do you like to listen to? What's your favorite (music) artist? What do you put on your sandwiches? What's your favorite school class?

—When you find yourself using words like "sanderfan" —When people ask you why you don't like math, and you reply "because there's always another secret" —When you find yourself swapping words like "Energy" and "Magic" for "Investiture." —When your parents ask you why you're fighting with your siblings, and you say: "Why do men fight? Because Odium Reigns."

I just feel like it's weird because of age difference. I wouldn't hate it either though, I just think it'd be a little weird.

I'm not sure I love the new Alcatraz covers. I get that they are trying to market to younger kids, but I feel like it's going to turn off a lot of readers, especially teenagers and adults. And that's really sad, 'cause Alcatraz. Lost Metal Cover is good though.

So there I was, having a normal day, when I began to reflect on how boring my life was. My reflection very quickly turned to the fact that in Alcatraz v.s. the Evil Librarians, Alcatraz's life is quite the opposite of boring. So I was wondering what you guys think the craziest—and most iconic—situations Alcatraz has been in, because there's quite a few to choose from. here are some of the best examples I came up with, but I bet you guys will be able to do even better, because I'm not that smart. —The situation when he's standing in front of a kitchen fire that seems to be burning unusually brightly holding not only the stove's knob, but also the handle of the pot in front of him. Quite a crazy scene from early book 1 —The scene where he looks into a room full of dinosaurs, and one of them waves at him. Alcatraz decides that this really isn't the strangest thing that's happened to him that day, which is part of what makes this scene so good. —Uh... I swear I had more scenes from other books, but the coppermind is weird all of a sudden and I can't find the chapter summaries to remind me, so you guys are guys are going to have to help me out. I'm exited to see what you think of!

Indeed. I'm not smart enough to use words like albeit, but still, welcome.

Hey, thanks for the summery, 'preciate it. @Warmacky

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this (I know, people say that a lot, I'm sorry) but I was wondering some more about how this works. Like, is there a specific format or whatever for submissions? Are we reading stuff, or writing it? Are we posting entire books, or just chapters? Where would things be posted/submitted? Etc. Sorry, I probably could have found this info somewhere but I'm not a super patient person so I'm asking you guys.

Yeah, I'm hoping for an ebook.

So, question. If I were to put the metalmind outside the slowness bubble, while remaining inside it... would that work? Is the Slowness bubble boarder clear enough for that to be possible?

You might be right, but I was under the impression that the bible made it so that in reality time was moving much faster than it seemed to be for you. Like stress said she could use it to make waiting for stuff easier, because an entire day could feel like a few hours. So wouldn't that make it so that when I was filling my metalmind, a lot of time was passing, but it didn't feel like a lot of time was passing? Again, I could be wrong about this.

I'm still hoping it's something more surprising, and creepy, that spooked them. But this theory does sound plausible.

So, my question was prompted by something Brandon Sanderson said a long time ago. Questioner: Have we seen Hemalurgy on any planet besides Scadrial? Brandon Sanderson: I believe that you have, yes. I don't think you guys will find it, it's not something that's meant to be obvious. Well I, (being me) took that as a challenge, and after searching long and hard, I finally believe I've found it. In the novella "Sixth of the Dusk" The birds on "First of the Sun" are thought to have magical abilities, but later in the novella it turns out the abilities are granted by parasites that infest the birds' food. By definition parasites have to piece the skin, so I feel like this could be a subtle form of hemalurgy. What do you think, Do you guys have any better ideas? Other theories?

Okay, I may be late to the party here, but I wanted to say that my personal favorite combo, is a Steelrunner-Pulser, or a Rioter-Slider. Now it's time to back up my decisions. Firstly, you'll notice I choose Pulser as an Alloymantic ability, which is an unconventional choice. You forget that this metal only seems week, because people think of it only in the context of alloymancy, but I am both a misting AND a ferring. (In this scenario.) Steelrunners are awesome, and fun, and the only drawback is the days you have to store your speed. Wouldn't it be nice if I could speed up personal time so that it felt like I was storing speed for a few minutes, but really it was much longer? Oh wait... I can! (Because of the pulser ability.) It's kinda the most awesome combo of all time. Now for my other combo. This one is less combo-ish, and more just awesome. My alloymantic choice was rioter, which again, is kind of unpopular next to the other abilities. (If you know me you know I can't take the popular route.) But beyond that, the ability carried by rioters, is honestly underestimated. Rioters can enflame emotions. Now, let's not get the wrong idea here. That ability is AWESOME. Have you ever watched a great movie, or read a great book and just felt that feeling of pure hope/joy? I can tell you, it's a great feeling. And if you're a great speaker, (Like myself.) (I'm also kidding.) (Mostly.) Then you are trying to give people those feelings with your words anyway, and you have a shortcut. You can recruit other listings to your cause using the power of your persuasion. As for the feruchimal ability, if I can't be a pulser, then I want a metalmind that is equally powerful when it is being filled, or tapped. As far as I can tell, this is the only metalmind with that benefit. (Besides Bendalloy metalminds maybe.) Also people might make the argument that steel is the most powerful misting ability, but why would you jump around on coins, when you can literally just jump, if you reduce your weight enough. Which you can reduce infinitely because metalminds! So, did I just blow you guy's minds? Or is someone going to one-up me, with even better arguments. (Sorry for any typos in the message above. We'll say they were intentional though, meant to add character to my message.)

That does indeed sound pretty terrible. I can see why nobody wants that.

Definitely... Could someone please explain the "Child Champion" theory to me? Haha.