trying to get back into my daily work
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Questioner: What's a character you thought would be more liked or popular, if you have one?
Brandon Sanderson: Oh boy, I don't know about that. I mean, I do think that the original version of Chet, from Cytonic, people would like more, and they HATED him, which is why I ripped him out and rewrote the book entirely.
That's one of the worst reactions I've had to a character - but, of course, that why I have beta reads, and alpha reads. When I flub up that big, then I want to know it before the book comes out, right?
Generally I have a pretty good instinct.
And it's odd, in book series, if you have multiple viewpoints, there will always be more variance in what people think of the characters. For instance, in Skyward, generally the characters are just not as divisive.
But in Elantris or Stormlight, where the character you love - other characters are pulling you away from, to tell their stories - you will generally, whoever that character is that you love, resent the other ones a little bit more than you would in a single-viewpoint narrative.
But that does make people kind of like the character they like even more, it's one of those things.
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amyacker via instagram: Just got to NYC to see @jimmycarp and look what (who😉) we found @nobodytoldme_nyc #canyouhearme #poi #root
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Lily Seika Jones (@rivuletpaper)
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Questioner: Ever be a book like the one from the Radiant Orders video?
Brandon Sanderson: Probably not, but the RPG book should have a decent amount of that kind of information in it when we launch the Stormlight RPG later this year.
We're intending that at least one of those books to be of general interest to people who like the series, because a lot of the countries I couldn't get to in the books, we'll have some information on. Good information on all the brands of Fused, all the Orders of Knights Radiant, stuff like that that'll be fun for even if you don't [play the RPG].
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