Tweets July 2-30, 2012
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reximilian Mon Jul 02
@BrandSanderson Two years ago you said Stormlight 2 would be "Late 2012 or early 2013." Is there an update to the estimated release date?
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 02
@reximilian 2013 is still my goal. It will depend on how the first draft goes.
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 02
Been spending the last few days podcasting with the writing excuses team. It's been going very well.
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 03
Dan Wells' THE HOLLOW CITY comes out today; release party at Weller Book Works. I'll be there. link pic
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 03
Off to Dan's release party. (At Weller's in Trolley Square.) He said to tell you the Writing Excuses team will be there & willing to sign.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
I'm a Special Guest at Comic-Con in San Diego next week. Here's my schedule. link
willcat12 Thu Jul 05
@BrandSanderson I'm torn Mr. Sanderson, your panel is around the same time as the Firefly reunion panel.BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@willcat12 What? Now that's just plain mean. They invite me, then put me up against THAT?
@BrandSanderson I know right! I may skip it though if you're revealing #AMOL scoop #WOT. My cousin also wants to know about #WOK series.BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@willcat12 No WoT scoop. Really, don't miss Firefly for me. I'll probably do a reading and a Q&A.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
At Comic-Con I will also have a convention exclusive hardcover at my table in Artist's Alley (#II-10). I'll post details next week.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
I'm going to the Magic: The Gathering M13 Prerelease Friday night at midnight at Epic Puzzles & Games. No signup needed link
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
Magic with Brandon this weekend: link
AEMarling Thu Jul 05
@BrandSanderson Good luck at the Prerelease. Which Planeswalker do you want to open?BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@AEMarling JTMS. Wait . . .
RedArmyHooligan Thu Jul 05
@BrandSanderson how about an update on when aMoL will be published?????
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@RedArmyHooligan Still January 8th, so far as I know. One more draft to do.
MorpheusStone Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson This is tragic,on the final draft and we still can't get the book by Oct or Nov!!BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@MorpheusStone Well, when you count copyedit, proofreads, and printing time, it is still going to be tight.
LORDHERSKO Thu Jul 05
@Brandsanderson approx how many hours a week to you spend writing when your writing a book? Approx how many per day? Thanks
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@LORDHERSKO I don't have a fixed average, but I'd guess between ten and twelve hours a day writing these days.
@Brandsanderson wow. How do u keep yourself focused that long? If i tried 2 write that much a day id go out of my mind.BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
@LORDHERSKO Everyone is different. Don't sweat it—go at your own pace. For me, it's relaxing.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
As an exercise to help writers this year, I want to try writing a short story and recording the process with screen capture software.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 05
I hear Camtasia is the way to go for screen-capture software. Is there a fan out there who works for them and can hook me up?
chrismlarson Mon Jul 09
@BrandSanderson Hey Brandon, did you still want to try out Camtasia? Windows or Mac? I designed the latest Windows version.BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
@chrismlarson Windows! I actually grabbed the 30-day-trial version, and am enjoying it.BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
@chrismlarson I'm trying out writing some short fiction while recording myself, then offering commentary on why I wrote as I did. :)
@BrandSanderson Fantastic. If you follow me, I can DM you a key.BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
@chrismlarson Done! And thank you!
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
Reminder, I'm doing the M13 pre-release tonight. Details on my website. (This is the last post on the topic, I promise.)
wehaveatrex Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson When the WoT is done, are you planning to write anything about the process of adapting RJ's work, like a Special Feature?
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@wehaveatrex I would like to, but no promises.
evolutionux Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson Just finished the #Mistborn series. Understand now why you were picked to finish WoT. Looking forward to your future works.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@evolutionux Thanks!
Jakebird85 Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson just started gthrng strm. It's greatbut burn you, I cried reading your forward. Thank you for continuing mr. Jordan's work.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@Jakebird85 It has been an honor.
BenTacoma Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson What are your thoughts on the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini? (not the movie :/) #InheritanceCycle #Eragon
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@BenTacoma The books are impressive. They certainly blow out of the water anything I was doing at his age.
_andyfox_ Fri Jul 06
A shout out to @BrandSanderson. Final Empire starting beautifully. #goodreads
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@_andyfox_ Enjoy!
CarolynnTheDyer Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson Just finished reading Alcatraz's second book. Now all my characters want to yell "Gak!" when they're surprised. :)
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 06
@CarolynnTheDyer :)
Knifelunatic Sat Jul 07
@BrandSanderson so out of curiosity, when are we likely to see the way of kings two? I'm rather looking forward to it
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 07
@Knifelunatic Next fall. (I hope.)
LindaSEpstein Sat Jul 07
I heard Robert Jordan planned 3 prequels to WoT—one was The New Spring—are there plans still for the other 2? @BrandSanderson
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 07
@LindaSEpstein I'm afraid there are no plans right now.
MichaelARothman Fri Jul 06
@BrandSanderson follow-on to way of kings? pic
alexcearl Fri Jul 06
@MichaelARothman @BrandSanderson That doesn't look long enough. I am rereading WoK right now, what a fantastic book it is.BrandSanderson Sat Jul 07
@alexcearl @MichaelARothman Ha. :)
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 07
Dinner tonight at the Macaroni Grill; server recogized me immediately. So I left him a book signed with those crayons the put on the tables.
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
Ha. Just saw a retweet of my post, & noticed I managed to spell "they" wrong. Thank you, Twitter and Facebook, for immortalizing my typos :)
FacetiousBeard Sun Jul 08
@BrandSanderson I know that feeling, I hat it when that happens.BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@FacetiousBeard lol
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
Odd to think that the tweets of the famous will outlive them. Can you imagine if we had Shakespeare's tweets? Anyway, off to bed.
martincoborn Sun Jul 08
@BrandSanderson "I have a bad feeling about this". #thatfeeling by @napoleon near Waterloo (72 000 retweets)BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@martincoborn Nice. You win 1000 magical internet points. Spend them wisely.
ParaGulls Sun Jul 08
@BrandSanderson hey Mr Sanderson, random question, what are your views on kindles?
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@ParaGulls I like ebooks. Kindles are nifty. I worry about Amazon's power in the market, but healthy competition seems to be springing up.
LoveIsInHerEyes Sun Jul 08
Now starting to read 'The Way Of Kings' by @BrandSanderson :D
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@LoveIsInHerEyes Enjoy!
iamGreenDragon Sun Jul 08
@BrandSanderson get any good cards? And how did you fare? Can't wait to get a 2013 fatpack—love the look—we were allowed to buy an intro too
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@iamGreenDragon Walked away with a Nichol Bolas, which I actually managed to cast a few times. :)
@BrandSanderson 2 sentinel spiders was all for me :( and 0-6 lol was truly a rough experienceBrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@iamGreenDragon Ouch.
Terez27 Sun Jul 08
@BrandSanderson According to Taim, he has 1920 Asha'man manning the walls & he'd need at least 2x that many for rotation. Is that a mistake?
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 08
@Terez27 Wow. Yeah, that totally looks like a mistake. I'll look it up, but . . . yeah, probably a mistake.
TBR_Otomo Mon Jul 09
@BrandSanderson if you do get time for Magic at SDCC let me know. It would be exciting as a fan to draft with you or play a game!
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
@TBR_Otomo Will do.
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
There's a new ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS annotation on the site, on chapter 18. Only 3 left. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
Last week's Writing Excuses episode asks if it's possible to be too original, and if originality is overrated. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
This week's Writing Excuses episode covers @MaryRobinette's GLAMOUR IN GLASS in depth. Spoilers! link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
My final creative writing lecture of the year is up, covering revision and touching on some other topics. video
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 09
Signing 1000 Legion signature pages. Man, this stack never seems to shrink . . . pic
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 10
Last draft of AMOL needs to be done soon. For today, I'm polishing off the last two new Rand scenes (of about eight) I'm adding to the book.
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 10
Here you go! This year's con exclusive: Hardcover Infinity Blade Awakening! $20 at my booth. pic
jesterscap2003 Tue Jul 10
@BrandSanderson is there any way that I can get one and not have to attend sdcc?BrandSanderson Tue Jul 10
@jesterscap2003 We will have them at dragoncon and gencon too. If there are any left I might sell them via the website.
seancassity Tue Jul 10
@BrandSanderson Have often wondered if Chair approached you before using god king elements from Mystborn in Inf Blade or after.BrandSanderson Tue Jul 10
@seancassity After, actually, but they told me that the game was in part inspired by my work.
LadyEnilla Wed Jul 11
@BrandSanderson Cool! Could you make it so we could buy it in your web's store, for us foreigners who are across the ocean?BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
@LadyEnilla Well, the story itself is only a couple of bucks on ereaders. Hardcover is a limited print run thing.BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
@LadyEnilla My goal is to have some of them for online sales (or maybe just a giveaway) but I can't promise.BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
@LadyEnilla HOWEVER if these things are exciting for people, I'll try to come up with other exclusives for cons I do overseas.
DonaldMustard Fri Jul 13
RT @BrandSanderson: Here you go! This year's con exclusive: Hardcover Infinity Blade Awakening! $20 at my booth. picBrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@DonaldMustard All gone now, I'm afraid!
HoffmanTweet Tue Jul 10
@BrandSanderson are you going to be playing magic at #sdcc? Anyway my fiancee and i can play with you? She just started!
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 10
@HoffmanTweet I will bring my cards, and hopefully we'll find a way. Maybe a draft at my hotel Sunday evening.
drelle64 Wed Jul 11
@BrandSanderson any news on WoT—know you're sick of that question. Sorry . . . :)
BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
@drelle64 Well, other than the last Rand scene (which I'm writing right now) not much. Need to finish the final draft ASAP.
BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
Long blog post up about the exclusives at my booth at Comic-Con. link
BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
At SDCC preview night? I need to spend tonight working on amol. I am heading to II 10 in artists alley for a few min right now, though.
BrandSanderson Wed Jul 11
Okay. Will be at my booth for a half hour. Come get exclusives before we sell out! By the Special guests sign on far end above the 5000s
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Here's another shot of the Feruchemical Table art print you can get at my booth #II-10. (Sorry, the lighting is odd.) pic
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
My Comic-Con schedule today: 1:00–3:00 p.m., Artist's Alley Booth II-10. 3:00–4:00 p.m., Tor Booth 2707. 4:00–5:00 p.m., Booth II-10 again.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
On the way to my booth! Will be there for 2 hours, signing and answering questions.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Crafty Games let me know that the Mistborn Adventure Game is in stock at Adventure Retail (booth #4423). pic
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Comiccon peeps: there is ONE copy left of the mistborn adventure game at booth 4423.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Important note: My solo panel at Comic-Con Friday will begin at 1:00, not at noon as previously announced.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Found a Mistborn at comic-con! pic
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 12
Comic-conning for the night done. (Had dinner with a Hollywood producer.) Now, for some more WoT editing!
jeandiata Thu Jul 12
@BrandSanderson You know, it IS ok to rest and play once in a while!! #URaMachineBrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@jeandiata Ha. Not when we're past deadline on this book. I'll rest when it's done.
umangshahx Thu Jul 12
@BrandSanderson Working on AMoL's final draft?BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@umangshahx Yup.
jfritsche Fri Jul 13
@BrandSanderson hope I get to meet you at #SDCC! Huge Writing Excuses (and Mistborn) fan. :-)
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@jfritsche Thanks! I'll be at my booth (II-10, artist's alley) on and off through the weekend.
The81stShepard Fri Jul 13
@Terez27 Tryin to figure out who the gay character that @BrandSanderson put in ToM. Was it Androl?
@The81stShepard @BrandSanderson That is my best guess. I wonder if we scared him away from going through with that . . . twas very controversialBrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@Terez27 @The81stShepard The place wasn't right in TofM. Gay character is in AMoL. It's really not a big deal; just a small mention.BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@Terez27 @The81stShepard I will say, at this point, that it is a character RJ mentioned was gay in the notes, so I noted it in the text.
@BrandSanderson link to old tweet from 2011
@BrandSanderson I'm guessing that's a product of Twitter being a bad for trying to say things clearly. The older tweet was confusing anyway.BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@Terez27 Wow, that was indeed confusing. I don't even know what I was trying to say.BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
@Terez27 What I remember typing was "I won't tell you if it's something RJ had in notes or not."
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
All right, WoT editing for the day done. This is going really well—the book is very nearly done. Just polishing, now.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
1–2:00, Room 25ABC: Solo panel. 2–3:00, Artist's Alley Booth #II-10. 3:30–4:30, Room 6A: Fantasy panel. 5–6:00, Sails Pavilion AA09: Signing
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
Please note that my solo panel today is at 1:00, not noon as previously announced.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
Solo panel at SDCC in about 20 min. Please consider coming, if you're here.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
Cool Starcraft costume at the book signing.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 13
Oops. Wrong button. Here is that pic. pic
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 14
Off to sign at my booth til 4. NOTE: I'll be here tomorrow, but today's the last day of sales at my booth. We pack the merch up tonight.
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
Newest ALCATRAZ VERSUS THE EVIL LIBRARIANS annotation has the meaning of the name "Rashid" as in the Sands of Rashid. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
This week's Writing Excuses talks about when the hero spends most of the book reacting to cool things the villain does. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
Christopher Paolini and I interviewed each other this past weekend at Comic-Con. (With a cameo by Robin Hobb.) video
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
The Fictorian Era has a short interview where I talk mostly about the modern ebook market. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
A Feast of Fantasy has another interview with me, mostly about THE ALLOY OF LAW. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
Invisible Vanguard has an interview where I discuss things like the desire for each book to be better than the last. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
Dark Matter has a 45-minute audio interview that I did with them when I was in Australia. link
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 16
The printed version of that Dark Matter interview is on page 49 of issue 9, which you can download here: link
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 17
The Mistborn Adventure Game printed versions came in. Aug 4th, a release event. Please preorder! link pic
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 17
I should mention that the Mistborn Adventure Game book has my Kelsier short story "The Eleventh Metal" in it. link
BrandSanderson Wed Jul 18
August 4th in Provo we'll have a release event for the Mistborn Adventure Game. Call Game Den to preorder! link
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
I'm flying out to Chattanooga for LibertyCon this weekend. Here is my schedule. link
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
Signed tofm paperback in the SLC airport bookstore near gate C6. :)
BSWest5 Thu Jul 19
@BrandSanderson Have you ever been secretly signing a book like that and had the store attendant ask why you're writing on a book?BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
@BSWest5 Not yet, but it is bound to happen eventually. The people at this bookstore know me, though.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
I have forgotten to update my progress bar lately. I just sent the first half of the seventh (lastish) draft to Harriet.
zarinf Thu Jul 19
@BrandSanderson Any update on the Legion release date?
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
@zarinf Not yet, I'm afraid. I did send in the signature pages, so we should be close.
PeterAhlstrom Thu Jul 19
@BrandSanderson @zarinf August 30, and it looks like they will hit that date.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
Alas, shops on the D concourse of the Atlanta airport are closed for rennovation. No stealth-signings here. Maybe on the flight home.
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
Spotted Larry Niven sitting by Jerry P. waiting for this flight. I feel like paparazzi. pic
@BrandSanderson It was great to meet you #SDCC preview night! Thanks for the pic! I will post soon :-) BTW I did make the Firefly panel!
BrandSanderson Thu Jul 19
@willcat12 :)
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 20
Larry Smith in the Libertycon dealers room has a rare Way of Kings ARC for sale. Just an FYI for you collecters.
BrandSanderson Fri Jul 20
Also, siswai'aman headband! pic (available here)
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 21
Libertycon has a book plate signed by R. Jordan in charity auction. pic
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 21
I will be playing Magic tomorrow at Libertycon. Draft in the Norfolk room at 3:00. Tweet/Facebook me if you're interested.
BrandSanderson Sun Jul 22
Heading to the magic draft at Libertycon. :)
BrandSanderson Tue Jul 24
Hadn't updated the AMOL draft progress bar in a while. Now at 70%. Getting close to having this book done.
Sarafacet Sat Jul 28
Also, @BrandSanderson any news on a #mistborn movie?
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
@Sarafacet None yet, I'm afraid.
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
Working away at AMoL last draft. 80 pages remaining, and I'll be done. Probably will finish tonight.
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
Last draft is done, folks. From here, we head to copyedits. (And perhaps small tweaks here and there.) Basically, though, AMOL is finished.
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
Thanks for the good wishes, all. Final length of the book is around 360k words. Tower of Midnight was 335k, for reference.
PeterOrullian Sat Jul 28
@BrandSanderson Congratulations, Brandon. Most cool.
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
@PeterOrullian Thanks! I'll tell you, I barely know what month it is, let alone what day . . . This has been a grueling set of revisions.
AshamanX Sat Jul 28
@BrandSanderson Do we know if Jan 8th is the official AMOL release or the date could still change?
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
@AshamanX Probably not going to change at this point.
surgio98 Sat Jul 28
@BrandSanderson I'm writing an arcticle on copyright and I wanted to know if you would share your sales figure for Warbreaker?
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
@surgio98 Well, there's a problem with that. In the middle of the Warbreaker experiment, I was chosen to finish the WoT.BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
@surgio98 My sales figures from that era are strange. They are altered so much by the WoT, that any other factor is impossible to isolate.
BrandSanderson Sat Jul 28
Out tonight with Emily enjoying a celebratory steak for having finished the Wheel of Time. Five years of work, hard but satisfying.
BrandSanderson Mon Jul 30
The German ALLOY OF LAW arrived, as well as the UK ELANTRIS audiobook. pic
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