Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Fifteen Chapter Fifteen The actions of this wildman here seem strangely logical to me for some reason. Everything he did simply felt right. Sometimes–well, most of the time–character work that way for me. It makes me worry, actually, that sometimes the characters are too clichéd. After all, if their actions and…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fourteen Yes, it was probably stupid of the crew to leave Elend alone with Tindwyl. I pushed this situation a little bit farther than, perhaps, is plausible. However, you have to remember how the Terris people are regarded by those in Luthadel. Terrismen are, in general, such kind and…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Thirteen Part Two Chapter Thirteen Part Two This Elend scene here is almost a direct parallel of the scene in book one where Kelsier first introduces the plan to his people. Elend has a much harder time of it. In fact, this scene–in conjunction with the scene with the Assembly–is supposed…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Thirteen Part One Chapter Thirteen I hope this first paragraph isn’t too overly-poetic for you. I have a tendancy to dabble in writing poetic language, and can veer into sections of prose that are a bit over-written. But, my editor didn’t strike this down, so I assume it’s all right. The…
Annotation Mistborn 2 Chapter Twelve Chapter Twelve This chapter is meant to be our ‘pay off’ chapter for the time we’ve invested into Sazed over the last few chapters. I, personally, think it’s the coolest chapter in this section of the book. Feruchemy really turned out well as a magic system, and I’m glad I…
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…
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…
