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Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I've picked up in bits in pieces that it's possible, for some people at least, to use the Shardpools to worldhop... Can non-Invested people do that, or do you have to have some form of Investiture? Do you have to have any special Investiture above and beyond the normal spark of life? | Yes. *hesitantly* Every individual is Invested to some extent... I'm gonna go ahead and RAFO that. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I was curious what the-- or if you had an inspiration for the scene with Vin and Elend going to his father's camp and the talk about acceptance? | Yeah a lot of these con-- these stories-- If you didn't hear it, there's a scene where Vin and Elend in Words of Radiance go to visit-- *crowd murmurs* not Words of Radiance *laughter* Well of Ascension ! They both start with a "W" I'm running out of letters to start books with. Yeah it's a good problem. So they go to ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Which of the roles Hoid has played is your favorite? And will we be seeing him in Dalinar's flashbacks? | So which of the roles played by Hoid is my favorite. I would probably say Dust from Warbreaker . I just like-- That's the most true storyteller he's been, kind of based on oral storytelling tradition and things like that. I can't tell you. You'll have to read and find out whether you'll find him in Dalinar's flashbacks... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Can you write in one of my books about something we don't know about the Shards, or at least one of the Shards? | *written* Odium has killed at least one more Shard than the ones we know about. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Was Adonalsium Shattered all at once? Or did each Shard form at a separate time? | All at once. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I was wondering if you were thinking along the lines of a movie of Alcatraz ? | We tried really hard. We actually even got storyboards and things with Dreamworks Animation, which was going to be awesome, but then they eventually let it die. So if you buy the big art Dreamworks Animation book, there's actually Alcatraz concept art on one of the pages, which is kind of excruciating that it never hap... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | First of all, how confident are you in your race with [Patrick] Rothfuss for use of the word "Stone" in your title? | You know, it's looking more and more like this might not even be Szeth's book. And if it's not Szeth's book, I may not even name it Stones Unhallowed ; I might name it something else relating to another character, but then again, Kaladin's book was named after the book Dalinar was reading, so anyway. We'll see. I'm pre... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | And the Steelheart film? | Steelheart film is owned by Fox, different company, Shawn Levy's company, 21 Laps at Fox, they are the ones who did Real Steel if you ever saw that, the Richard Matheson story, and I thought their adaptation of that was really good. They also did the Night of the Museum films, and so when they came to me asking for Ste... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What was the book that was the hardest to write for you? Why? | It would definitely be A Memory of Light , the last Wheel of Time book. Well, number one, I had been following that series for 20 years, and I was finishing off the writing of an author I respected a lot, and trying to fill his shoes, and not being able to do it because no one could, and the end of a journey. Every oth... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | The bit with the bandits out there, and the deserters, and she [Shallan] convinces them to all go... Was she doing Lightweaving? Was she doing Transformation? Was she doing some combination? | She was... You have seen what she was doing before, done by another character. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Title Page You'd be surprised how much can be said about the title of this book. Naming books is one of the most frustrating, and most fulfilling, elements of writing. I'm more fortunate than some authors I know–for most of my books, the names came easily. Sometimes, I even came up with the title before I wrote the boo... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Are we going to see Book 5 of Alcatraz ? | Are you going to see Book 5 of Alcatraz , that counts as awesome. So I have written Book 5 of Alcatraz ... I have written it, Tor is re-releasing them, because we bought them back from Scholastic and are then, I bought the rights back, I didn't think they were treating the books very well, and we sold them again to Tor... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I read online, something about one of your original drafts, [I think it was about] Gavilar, and it was where he was blind? | Yeah that was actually Taravangian, in the oldest version. One of the very first things I wrote was that, though Taravangian had a different name then, and was very different. Szeth has stayed the same through all the revisions. Kaladin has changed wildly, and almost everybody has changed dramatically, except Szeth is ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | *Something incomprehensible about emotion* Do you like to connect with your reader on an emotional level? | I do. So here's the thing: I am not an emotional person by my nature, and one of the only things that makes me feel very strong emotions is fiction. A really good piece of fiction makes me feel like the characters do, and the rest of the time, I'm just kind of - I won't say emotionless, but not emotional. It's not that... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Your Mistborn series are they trying to make a movie of it? | Yes I did-- They are trying to make a movie of it. I don't know when it will get made, or if it will get made, but I was reading the treatment for the second book on the plane today and it was actually really good. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What are some of your favorite books to read to your kids? | Favorite books to read to the kids, hands down my favorite book to read to the kids is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus *laughter* Just, that story is just so much fun-- When they get it, right? I read it to the two- or three-year-old and they don't quite get it, but by four they're like "I get to say no to the pigeo... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Do you have any, or will you ever write a gay character into any of your books? | There are several. Drehy, in The Stormlight Archive , the bridgeman is gay, because he's based off a good friend of mine who's gay. Ranette in the Wax & Wayne books, the woman that Wayne's in love with, she's gay, and it's hinted at in the first book. By the second book, they're like "Dude, she's gay, just leave he... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | As an aside, it's really funny, like I've had on and off sort of things go well with Hollywood and things not go well with Hollywood and things get optioned. Someone in Hollywood read one of my books and then went online and googled about it and found about this whole thing and then called me and wanted to buy the righ... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So do you ever put a page length limit on yourself? Does the publisher ever put any limits on you? So by the time we get to Stormlight 6 or 7, they'll have to go buy a new printer? | I don't, but I know by gut generally after I start writing how long a book feels. No, they actually haven't. They do ask me if I'll write them shorter, but it's always an ask, and I usually ignore them. In fact, Words of Radiance is the largest book they can physically print with their printer, but the font is not the ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Where does Sixth of the Dusk sit in the timeline? So around the third trilogy of Mistborn ? | Where does Sixth of the Dusk sit in the timeline. It is probably the furthest future of any of the cosmere stories I've done. Potentially, probably not quite to that. But yeah, it is very... But yeah that's the latest. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I've gotten both Legion books from Subterranean Press, and I was wondering if you've planned on doing any more through them. | I would like to. The thing is, it is kind of a hassle, just because working out release dates and things like that, part of the reason to do - I think they do gorgeous editions - but part of the reason to do the e-book things is so that I can be a little bit more spontaneous in releasing them and things like that, and ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Which is your favorite Epic to write? | To write? Obliteration, because he's creepy in the way I like people to be creepy. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you keep it all organized when you're doing so much at once? | A wiki. An internal wiki is where I keep all the cosmere and all the notes on that. The other things, I don't have to worry about as much. For instance, Reckoners , I've got one viewpoint character and one major plot; that I can keep in my head. I've got note files and things like that, but the Cosmere ? Big old wiki f... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | During the Steelheart tour you mentioned you were trying to work with Tor to get free ebook copies for every hardcover, did anything-- | Yes something is coming, I'll tell you about it... So, I think the first chance we're going to have to do this is for my next Tor book which is going to be Shadows of Self , a Mistborn novel. And if you watch we're going to-- we're coming up with something-- it's still-- I think in about five years, maybe sooner than t... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Which of the worlds is your favorite? Like if you could find yourself living in that world? | Woah, that's two different things. *laughter* Which is my favorite. Roshar is my favorite. I've been working on that one the longest. I think it is the most unique. I've put a lot into it, but I don't know if I would want to live there because on Scadrial, where the Mistborn books take place they have flush toilets, ri... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So, Vorinism and the safehand, it's obviously a modesty type thing kind of like the hijab. Where does the modesty stop? Or does it go up the whole arm? Okay, so if they had, like, a slitted sleeve? | It doesn't go up the whole arm, it actually ends at about the wrist. That would be fine. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | If you drew a stick figure of a chalkling, would it be able to spike other chalklings and get their powers? | *laughter* No, because no one in this world knows what that is, because they're separate universes, but it is very clever. If you were doing it, I'd probably let you get away with it. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Can you tell me how long it was from the Shattering of Adonalsium to the prelude of The Way of Kings when the Heralds abandoned the Oathpact? 'Cause I've looked at the current chronology and it's very, very spotty... That one takes place before Way of Kings doesn't it? 'Cause I know one of the worldhoppers from there s... | Current timeline, which I have NOT canonized, is around 6,000 years... I have not finished with my outline document yet. Yes it is... the real trick is... making sure that I fit in, for instance, White Sand and things with the proper amount... because I haven't released that book series yet, I have to make sure while w... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | POSTMODERNISM IN FANTASY The Way of Kings is out. I’ve been thinking a lot about the novel, what it has meant to me over the years, and why I decided to write it as I did. I’ve had a lot of trouble deciding how to pitch this novel to people. It’s a trouble I’ve never had before. I’m going ... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Do you have any advice for a married couple who both hope to be professional novelists? | If you hope to be professional wri-- novelists and married couple, you're very lucky because you'll be able to understand each other. You are also "you poor souls" because you're going to ignore each other a lot. *laughter* I would say, the number one piece of advice I give to writers is this: Treat becoming a writer, ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Are the Sho Del hordlings and/or a hivemind? | The Sho Del are NOT a hivemind. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Was there an Allomantic power that didn't make it into the book? | Was there an Allomantic power that didn't make it into the book. Oh... Yes, but I'm trying to remember. I had like two dozen of them? Oh boy I can't even remember the ones that I discarded. I was going to do a lot more stuff externally, stuff that like wasn't inside of you and it didn't end up working out. The big thin... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | All the people with powers fit into one category. Was there a reason you chose to do that? Yes. | All the people with powers fit into one category? Yes. Was there a reason I chose to do that? Well, I'm not sure if I can answer that... So I assume you're asking-- The original premise for Steelheart was that everyone who has superpowers is evil. And that is just the original premise so that is not a spoiler. In my-- ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I heard a rumor that the universes of all your books are interconnected? | Yes. Most of my books, not all of them. If a book mentions Earth, it is not connected to what I call the cosmere, I kind of made this decision early on. So for those of you who don't know, my epic fantasies are indeed all connected. There are characters who cross over between them. I've been planning this for twenty ye... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I was wondering if you could talk a little about expletives and blasphemy? | *amusedly* Expletives and blasphemy... So, It's really interesting, one of the first things that I think about when I'm coming up with a fantasy world is "How would they-- How do they curse?". And I don't know why this happens to me, but it feels like you can build out and extrapolate a lot about a culture from what th... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you choose ages for your characters and how often does that change throughout the writing process? | How do I choose ages for my characters and how often does that change the writing process. I choose my characters... It's really hard to talk about. Because I can really drill down into how I come up with settings, so magic systems and things, and I can talk a lot about how I plot and why I plot. Character is the one t... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Would you rather be a Misting or a Mistborn? What if you have to be a Misting? | Would I rather be a Misting or a Mistborn? Would I rather have one power or ALL THE POWERS?!? *laughter* I'm going to pick all the powers... What if I had to be a Misting? Coinshot, so I can jump around and fly. I should pick like Thug so I can be tough and people can punch me and I'd be "haha" or whatever but really I... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Is there a word that you made up that's a favorite word of yours? | I still find occasionally find myself, curse-wise, saying "Merciful Domi", which is from my first one. Otherwise there are lots of interesting words, lately I've put the word "Catacendre" into the Alloy of Law era to mean the end of the ash. And I like how that flows with kind of almost a psuedo-Latin on it and things ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Second question, if completely hypothetically, and forbid! - somebody had to do for you what you did for Robert Jordan, who would your choice be? I read McClellan's book on your recommendation. Can you let him know that he needs to put women in his books? | I would probably either pick Brent Weeks, who has a very similar style to me, or Brian McClellan, who is one of my students who is now publishing books, and writing very good books. Those guys, either one, I think would do a fine job. Yeah, that's what I actually told him. My number one criticism when he called me and ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you come up with the languages? Just because it sounds cool, or... | Languages. So languages in my books, I have a couple of tools that I use and it depends on the book. For some books I just use kind of shortcuts. Mistborn is an example of this, there's only one language that everyone is speaking and there is a little bit of Terris, so for that I just made every region-- I based off of... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Would Nightblood appear in the Cognitive Realm? …Would it appear as a sword, or because Nightblood appears to perceive itself as something else, would it appear as something else? | Nightblood will have a manifestation in the Cognitive Realm. So, um, you will get a RAFO. *laughter* Because most things we're going to deal with we will have some scenes in the Cognitive Realm coming up, and you'll be better able to make guesses along these lines after you've read those. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | All of the females in your books seem to be very independent, strong women; do you believe that you write them that way from your perspective, or is that your experience, or...? | There's a couple of things behind that. The first is that my mother graduated first in her class in Accounting in a year where she was the only woman in the entire Accounting department. That was in an era where that wasn't something that a lot of women did, and so I've had quite the role model in my life. But beyond t... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What was your inspiration for coming up with Szeth? | So... I designed his culture first, one of the odd cases where I was working on the culture, and out of that grew his character, at odds with his culture. So I wanted somebody who was both the paragon of his culture and the person who was at odds with it. That concept just worked for me. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I don't know what you can or cannot tell me but I read a comment that Hoid is your favorite character, I don't know what you can say about that. | Hoid is definitely a favorite of mine. Picking a favorite character is like trying to pick a favorite child, It's just not productive. Robert Jordan always answered this question by saying "My favorite is the one that I am writing right now" and so-- But yes, Hoid is the character-- one of the very first characters I c... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So, in Steelheart , if you were going to have an Epic be good, who would it be? | If I were going to have an Epic be good in Steelheart , which one would it be? That it as big ol' R-A-F-O, which stands for Read And Find Out because I will talk about that through the course of the books. So you need to read Firefight , okay? |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you like to do internal monologues or thinking between different characters who are very similar to each other. | How do I like to do internal monologues and thinking between different characters who are distinct from each other. I just try to make it be in their voice. I am a person who likes to put thoughts directly in someone's head, so you'll see them in italics. And I try to keep to their voice as much as possible, so if they... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Is the chain in Celebrant made of Dragonsteel? | RAFO! |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | With The Way of Kings about to be released, how well-received as the novel been thus far? Are you pleased with the advance praise and reviews? | So far so good. As with any book, there are some reviews that just make me happy and dance on the clouds, and there are others that are still good reviews but make me think, "Oh, they didn't quite get it," or that sort of thing. Asking an author or an artist about reviews is an interesting process, because we all want ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Were any of the original Shardholders related? We know that Honor and Cultivation were romantically involved, but were any of them brother and sister or child/parent? | There was at least one relationship of that style. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Atium was not a basic metal. Does the Era 2 table of 16 have a similar mistake? | RAFO |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Do you ever have trouble keeping your characters straight? How long does it take to get back into them? *audio obscured* | If I stop writing and go back, it is hard. It takes about a month to get back into a story after I stop. I don't get the characters mixed up. I try to, but I don't always manage it, because of deadlines and things. It's always going to cost me, and I know it will, sometimes you can't avoid that. In the old days, I neve... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What was your inspiration for coming up with Szeth? | So... I designed his culture first, one of the odd cases where I was working on the culture, and out of that grew his character, at odds with his culture. So I wanted somebody who was both the paragon of his culture and the person who was at odds with it. That concept just worked for me. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Human, spren, Splinter, Sliver, Shard, Adonalsium - which of these is most similar ontologically to Nakomi? | *laughter* I can't say anything about Nakomi! Robert Jordan did not want anything said about Nakomi! I can't say anything at all about Nakomi! Dig into the notes when they are released, and then you can find out things said about Nakomi. The little tiny hints we have, I told you he wrote that thing at the end, and I'm ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | And the Steelheart film? | Steelheart film is owned by Fox, different company, Shawn Levy's company, 21 Laps at Fox, they are the ones who did Real Steel if you ever saw that, the Richard Matheson story, and I thought their adaptation of that was really good. They also did the Night of the Museum films, and so when they came to me asking for Ste... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | At the end of A Memory of Light , it mentions that Rand is no longer ta'veren - does that apply to Mat and Perrin as well? And if it does, how does it apply to Mat's luck? So you don't know whether they're ta'veren or not? Can women be ta'veren ? Because in the entire series there is not a single female ta'veren . | Everything I'm saying right now is not 100% canon, because I'm only working off of my guesstimates based on his notes. I believe that Mat's luck is a soul attribute that is independent of him being a ta'veren , but enhanced by his ta'veren nature. Part of the proof of this is the Heroes of the Horn knowing him as Gambl... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Which is your favorite Epic to write? | To write? Obliteration, because he's creepy in the way I like people to be creepy. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Is the chain in Celebrant made of Dragonsteel? | RAFO! |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | POSTMODERNISM IN FANTASY The Way of Kings is out. I’ve been thinking a lot about the novel, what it has meant to me over the years, and why I decided to write it as I did. I’ve had a lot of trouble deciding how to pitch this novel to people. It’s a trouble I’ve never had before. I’m going ... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | In the Mistborn trilogy, was it hard to write the final twist, or had it been planned that way? | This is always the way it was planned. There are some smaller things that I'll allow spontaneity to change the book, but the general structure of the book is always planned out. And if something changes while I'm writing I go and throw away the plan and rebuild the plan, so I'm always writing with a plan. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you keep it all organized when you're doing so much at once? | A wiki. An internal wiki is where I keep all the cosmere and all the notes on that. The other things, I don't have to worry about as much. For instance, Reckoners , I've got one viewpoint character and one major plot; that I can keep in my head. I've got note files and things like that, but the Cosmere ? Big old wiki f... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Why couldn't Joel be a Rithmatist? He wanted it so bad. | I will explain as the series progresses. That is a plot point. Every book like that, they get the power in the end, and I thought it was a much more interesting story if he has half - the knowledge - and Melody has half - the talent - and together they create a whole. It just worked, and it was much better for me as a ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Do you have any, or will you ever write a gay character into any of your books? | There are several. Drehy, in The Stormlight Archive , the bridgeman is gay, because he's based off a good friend of mine who's gay. Ranette in the Wax & Wayne books, the woman that Wayne's in love with, she's gay, and it's hinted at in the first book. By the second book, they're like "Dude, she's gay, just leave he... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Are the Sho Del hordlings and/or a hivemind? | The Sho Del are NOT a hivemind. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Can you write in one of my books about something we don't know about the Shards, or at least one of the Shards? | *written* Odium has killed at least one more Shard than the ones we know about. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | If you drew a stick figure of a chalkling, would it be able to spike other chalklings and get their powers? | *laughter* No, because no one in this world knows what that is, because they're separate universes, but it is very clever. If you were doing it, I'd probably let you get away with it. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So, Vorinism and the safehand, it's obviously a modesty type thing kind of like the hijab. Where does the modesty stop? Or does it go up the whole arm? Okay, so if they had, like, a slitted sleeve? | It doesn't go up the whole arm, it actually ends at about the wrist. That would be fine. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So do you ever put a page length limit on yourself? Does the publisher ever put any limits on you? So by the time we get to Stormlight 6 or 7, they'll have to go buy a new printer? | I don't, but I know by gut generally after I start writing how long a book feels. No, they actually haven't. They do ask me if I'll write them shorter, but it's always an ask, and I usually ignore them. In fact, Words of Radiance is the largest book they can physically print with their printer, but the font is not the ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I've gotten both Legion books from Subterranean Press, and I was wondering if you've planned on doing any more through them. | I would like to. The thing is, it is kind of a hassle, just because working out release dates and things like that, part of the reason to do - I think they do gorgeous editions - but part of the reason to do the e-book things is so that I can be a little bit more spontaneous in releasing them and things like that, and ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | When Shallan does Lightweaving, is that a combination of Illumination and Transformation, or is Lightweaving just of Illumination? | Lightweaving is just of Illumination. Lightweaving is a long-established power in the cosmere. Very early books, in fact one of the very first stories I ever wrote, Lightweaving was the magic. (That story is unpublished, written long ago - long before Liar of Partinel ) And so, this stems from my own personal affection... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Prior to becoming pregnant, did [Queen Aesudan] spend most of her time at the Shattered Plains, or in the capital? But she was at the Shattered Plains, rather than Elhokar going back to the capital? | She has spent most of her time in the capital. She obviously has been back and forth. I would say she has spent more time off the Shattered Plains than at it. He has been back at least once, but it is a long trip. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Are we going to see Book 5 of Alcatraz ? | Are you going to see Book 5 of Alcatraz , that counts as awesome. So I have written Book 5 of Alcatraz ... I have written it, Tor is re-releasing them, because we bought them back from Scholastic and are then, I bought the rights back, I didn't think they were treating the books very well, and we sold them again to Tor... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Any more [Pen & Paper] RPGs in the works? | I know that Crafty [Games] is planning another supplement to go in line with the new [ Mistborn Era 2] books I'm releasing, because there are various things that are important to the new books that would make another good supplement. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Would you rather be a Misting or a Mistborn? What if you have to be a Misting? | Would I rather be a Misting or a Mistborn? Would I rather have one power or ALL THE POWERS?!? *laughter* I'm going to pick all the powers... What if I had to be a Misting? Coinshot, so I can jump around and fly. I should pick like Thug so I can be tough and people can punch me and I'd be "haha" or whatever but really I... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Do you have any advice for a married couple who both hope to be professional novelists? | If you hope to be professional wri-- novelists and married couple, you're very lucky because you'll be able to understand each other. You are also "you poor souls" because you're going to ignore each other a lot. *laughter* I would say, the number one piece of advice I give to writers is this: Treat becoming a writer, ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you choose ages for your characters and how often does that change throughout the writing process? | How do I choose ages for my characters and how often does that change the writing process. I choose my characters... It's really hard to talk about. Because I can really drill down into how I come up with settings, so magic systems and things, and I can talk a lot about how I plot and why I plot. Character is the one t... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I was wondering if you could talk a little about expletives and blasphemy? | *amusedly* Expletives and blasphemy... So, It's really interesting, one of the first things that I think about when I'm coming up with a fantasy world is "How would they-- How do they curse?". And I don't know why this happens to me, but it feels like you can build out and extrapolate a lot about a culture from what th... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Is there a word that you made up that's a favorite word of yours? | I still find occasionally find myself, curse-wise, saying "Merciful Domi", which is from my first one. Otherwise there are lots of interesting words, lately I've put the word "Catacendre" into the Alloy of Law era to mean the end of the ash. And I like how that flows with kind of almost a psuedo-Latin on it and things ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | All the people with powers fit into one category. Was there a reason you chose to do that? Yes. | All the people with powers fit into one category? Yes. Was there a reason I chose to do that? Well, I'm not sure if I can answer that... So I assume you're asking-- The original premise for Steelheart was that everyone who has superpowers is evil. And that is just the original premise so that is not a spoiler. In my-- ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | During the Steelheart tour you mentioned you were trying to work with Tor to get free ebook copies for every hardcover, did anything-- | Yes something is coming, I'll tell you about it... So, I think the first chance we're going to have to do this is for my next Tor book which is going to be Shadows of Self , a Mistborn novel. And if you watch we're going to-- we're coming up with something-- it's still-- I think in about five years, maybe sooner than t... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Was there an Allomantic power that didn't make it into the book? | Was there an Allomantic power that didn't make it into the book. Oh... Yes, but I'm trying to remember. I had like two dozen of them? Oh boy I can't even remember the ones that I discarded. I was going to do a lot more stuff externally, stuff that like wasn't inside of you and it didn't end up working out. The big thin... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you like to do internal monologues or thinking between different characters who are very similar to each other. | How do I like to do internal monologues and thinking between different characters who are distinct from each other. I just try to make it be in their voice. I am a person who likes to put thoughts directly in someone's head, so you'll see them in italics. And I try to keep to their voice as much as possible, so if they... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | How do you come up with the languages? Just because it sounds cool, or... | Languages. So languages in my books, I have a couple of tools that I use and it depends on the book. For some books I just use kind of shortcuts. Mistborn is an example of this, there's only one language that everyone is speaking and there is a little bit of Terris, so for that I just made every region-- I based off of... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Your Mistborn series are they trying to make a movie of it? | Yes I did-- They are trying to make a movie of it. I don't know when it will get made, or if it will get made, but I was reading the treatment for the second book on the plane today and it was actually really good. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Which of the worlds is your favorite? Like if you could find yourself living in that world? | Woah, that's two different things. *laughter* Which is my favorite. Roshar is my favorite. I've been working on that one the longest. I think it is the most unique. I've put a lot into it, but I don't know if I would want to live there because on Scadrial, where the Mistborn books take place they have flush toilets, ri... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I heard a rumor that the universes of all your books are interconnected? | Yes. Most of my books, not all of them. If a book mentions Earth, it is not connected to what I call the cosmere, I kind of made this decision early on. So for those of you who don't know, my epic fantasies are indeed all connected. There are characters who cross over between them. I've been planning this for twenty ye... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | As an aside, it's really funny, like I've had on and off sort of things go well with Hollywood and things not go well with Hollywood and things get optioned. Someone in Hollywood read one of my books and then went online and googled about it and found about this whole thing and then called me and wanted to buy the righ... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I don't know what you can or cannot tell me but I read a comment that Hoid is your favorite character, I don't know what you can say about that. | Hoid is definitely a favorite of mine. Picking a favorite character is like trying to pick a favorite child, It's just not productive. Robert Jordan always answered this question by saying "My favorite is the one that I am writing right now" and so-- But yes, Hoid is the character-- one of the very first characters I c... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Where does Sixth of the Dusk sit in the timeline? So around the third trilogy of Mistborn ? | Where does Sixth of the Dusk sit in the timeline. It is probably the furthest future of any of the cosmere stories I've done. Potentially, probably not quite to that. But yeah, it is very... But yeah that's the latest. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What are some of your favorite books to read to your kids? | Favorite books to read to the kids, hands down my favorite book to read to the kids is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus *laughter* Just, that story is just so much fun-- When they get it, right? I read it to the two- or three-year-old and they don't quite get it, but by four they're like "I get to say no to the pigeo... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | So, in Steelheart , if you were going to have an Epic be good, who would it be? | If I were going to have an Epic be good in Steelheart , which one would it be? That it as big ol' R-A-F-O, which stands for Read And Find Out because I will talk about that through the course of the books. So you need to read Firefight , okay? |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I've picked up in bits in pieces that it's possible, for some people at least, to use the Shardpools to worldhop... Can non-Invested people do that, or do you have to have some form of Investiture? Do you have to have any special Investiture above and beyond the normal spark of life? | Yes. *hesitantly* Every individual is Invested to some extent... I'm gonna go ahead and RAFO that. |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | Title Page You'd be surprised how much can be said about the title of this book. Naming books is one of the most frustrating, and most fulfilling, elements of writing. I'm more fortunate than some authors I know–for most of my books, the names came easily. Sometimes, I even came up with the title before I wrote the boo... | |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I loved the ending of Words of Radiance . When you come up with an idea for a new cosmere book, do you have to go "Oh, now I have to figure out how this fits in with everything else", or do you have it pre-made? | I have a few little holes that I can slot things into, and I try to get them to fit the roles, like I know there are certain things that need to happen, and if it doesn't fit the role, I just go ahead and make it a minor planet, like Shadows for Silence , where I can write a story, but I can't put as much magic into th... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | I was curious what the-- or if you had an inspiration for the scene with Vin and Elend going to his father's camp and the talk about acceptance? | Yeah a lot of these con-- these stories-- If you didn't hear it, there's a scene where Vin and Elend in Words of Radiance go to visit-- *crowd murmurs* not Words of Radiance *laughter* Well of Ascension ! They both start with a "W" I'm running out of letters to start books with. Yeah it's a good problem. So they go to ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What was the book that was the hardest to write for you? Why? | It would definitely be A Memory of Light , the last Wheel of Time book. Well, number one, I had been following that series for 20 years, and I was finishing off the writing of an author I respected a lot, and trying to fill his shoes, and not being able to do it because no one could, and the end of a journey. Every oth... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | First of all, how confident are you in your race with [Patrick] Rothfuss for use of the word "Stone" in your title? | You know, it's looking more and more like this might not even be Szeth's book. And if it's not Szeth's book, I may not even name it Stones Unhallowed ; I might name it something else relating to another character, but then again, Kaladin's book was named after the book Dalinar was reading, so anyway. We'll see. I'm pre... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | With The Way of Kings about to be released, how well-received as the novel been thus far? Are you pleased with the advance praise and reviews? | So far so good. As with any book, there are some reviews that just make me happy and dance on the clouds, and there are others that are still good reviews but make me think, "Oh, they didn't quite get it," or that sort of thing. Asking an author or an artist about reviews is an interesting process, because we all want ... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | In The Emperor's Soul - when did you decide to change the beginning? | It was Mary, from the podcast with me, is very good at short fiction. She read it, and she said, "This intro is just holding the story back." And I read it again, and I'm like, I really feel that she's right. I felt at the end of it that the intro was interesting for people who liked Hoid already, but for people who di... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What was your inspiration for Sixth of the Dusk? It feels so, Polynesian or Hawaiian... | I love Hawaiian and Polynesian culture, and it was basically me reading some stories about Kamehameha, and his unification of the islands, and all this stuff, and I'm like, "Ah, I've got to use this someday." It was years later before I got to use it, but I did find a time to use it. And then we got Kekai [Kotaki] to d... |
Answer the following question the ebst you can about Brandon Sanderson's works and the Cosmere | What do you think is the difference between SciFi and Fantasy? But wouldn't you say Star Wars is really both? | SciFi works with the improbable becoming reality; Fantasy works with the impossible pretending to be reality. I think the line is between what could be and what can't be. By my definition, that kind of takes Star Wars into Fantasy. I don't necessarily like Asimov's definitions, just because he was very down on fantasy.... |
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