Annotation Mistborn 2 Part One Wrap-Up Well, reading that section of the book again, I’m now very pleased with how it turned out. It introduces what I wanted it to, keeps things moving, and sets up the conflict for the book. It’s hard, however, to look at it objectively. It’s been through so many drafts,…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Eleven Chapter Eleven A few things to watch out for. There might be an extra “Silver” or “Silvereye” stuck in the books somewhere. If you read the annotations in the last book, you’ll know that I changed the Allomantic metal of silver into tin at the last minute. I couldn’t find…
Amphigory + What I’m Working On Okay, so I’m off by a few hours. Sorry about that. I wanted to get this posted on Tuesday, but it will have to be a wee-hours Wednesday post. Scroll down for pun stupidity. Since It’s so late, I’m going to hold off on those annotations (since I have…
EUOLogy: Goodbye Mr. Jordan Cross posted from the EUOLogy section of my website: My career, like many young fantasy authors, has been deeply influenced by Robert Jordan, and I find his passing a to be a tragedy for the entire community. I still remember the first time I saw EYE OF THE WORLD on bookshelves.…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Ten Chapter Ten There was an epic battle with my editor over some revision changes to this chapter. I though that the word to use for a place where someone stands to address a crowd was a “podium.” He said that was an adulteration of the language, and that the pure,…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Nine Chapter Nine A very short Sazed chapter. Mostly, this was just here because I had to remind the readers that Sazed was doing things. Getting to the Conventical is going to take enough time that, if I hadn’t thrown in a small chapter like this, you would have gone a…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Eight Chapter eight So, Moshe and I BOTH worried about the fact that we’ve got two shadow mysterious figures showing up at the beginning of this book. Part of the problem is the rewrite, which mashed things together at the beginning of the novel, increasing the speed–but then melding things together…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Seven Here’s where we start to get some of our first real hints of the dominating plotline that will overshadow these two books: The Lord Ruler is dead. What in the world have we gotten ourselves into? As I mentioned in the previous Sazed annotation, I really like his scenes for…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Six Chapter Six So, here’s a little of the jovial friendship that I mentioned in the last annotation. One of the things I like about these books IS the way that the characters can get along and relax. It’s a bit tougher to pull off in this book–with Kelsier gone, and…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Five Chapter Five One of my writing groups had an intense reaction against Vin killing the dog in this scene. I’m not sure, still, WHY they got so upset–but they really didn’t like it that she killed a dog “in cold blood” as they put it. So, her little “I’m sorry…
