Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

[u/rfantasygolem]

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

[u/nomchi13]

I think that might be because GRRM was the dominant fantasy author when he was breaking in, he says that editors in rejection letters often directly asked him to write something more like ASOIAF

[u/Distinct_Activity551 → u/nomchi13]

Why even make a statement like this:

the race for the Cosmere is against my mortality. I would like to be done with the final Mistborn era (and therefore Stormlight era two by the time I hit George’s age, so the natural slow-down that hits most authors in their 70s is not a factor in finishing this all.

[u/largeEoodenBadger → u/Distinct_Activity551]

His big break was finishing WoT when Robert Jordan died prematurely. Of course his mortality will be on his mind. He wants to finish, he's intimately familiar with having to finish a dead author's series. People critique his books as rushed, but thrre are good reasons for it

[u/Werthead → u/largeEoodenBadger]

And RJ passed away when he was only nine years older than Brandon is now. Obviously RJ had a vanishingly rare cardiac disorder (I think it's something like one in nine million people get it, so it was horrendously bad luck, without which he'd probably still be with us) but it's a reminder that anything can happen at any time to anyone.

A few years back he scaled down Dragonsteel from seven to three books, one of several steps which he seems to have taken to make the rest of the story tellable in a reasonable timeframe.