How come Sanderson can finish like 3 novels a year while Rothfuss, who writes equally low-brow fantasy slop, struggles to meet a decade-long deadline?
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How come Sanderson can finish like 3 novels a year while Rothfuss, who writes equally low-brow fantasy slop, struggles to meet a decade-long deadline?
Both hacks. One can do it faster. Read better literature.
Oh hey, I saw the Roth guy in Critical Role. An automatic dislike as he quickly made a connection to that moronic character Keyleth, of the equally moronic Marisha Ray.
He should start going by per decade instead. The number would be the same.
At no point did anyone outside of Reddit-types consider Rothfuss a serious contender for the title of "greatest" anything. I read his first book during a time when I was a huge fantasy reader and it was embarrassing self-insert wish fulfillment even by the standards of the genre. Pic related came out around the same time and took a huge shit all over Rothfuss and anyone else in the genre, for that matter.
Short answer is drugs.
Sanderson is down-to-earth, unpretentious and knows his job is just to keep churning out wizard books at a sufficient rate. There have been a lot of writers like him in genre fic, perfectly decent people. Rothfuss, if you see the way people talk about him, was apparently the victim of an elaborate conspiracy to convince him that he's a serious writer. Probably adds a lot of stress.
This. Not a Sanderson fan at all but he knows his niche and actually works to fill it.
Rothfuss is an emo crybaby b***h, Sanderson isn't. It's literally that simple.
This.
Spending anytime listening to Rothfuss talk and you learn quickly what a douche he is
Mormon work ethic
I just bought the two Kingkiller books by Rothfuss but I haven't started them yet. I know it's never going to get an ending though.
Sanderson can write quick because he willingly cedes all creative impulse in favour of the blandest, most tried-and-tested ossified story structures imaginable, cliches and tropes abound. He has no understanding nor love for any his characters, but instead pre-loads them with the exact strengths and weaknesses he knows are received best by this current generation (think depression or autism). I want to call him lazy or boring, but it’s much more likely that he suffers through some holistic super-autism, whereby his own failure to understand the workings of the world or people around him forces him to rely extensively on plot devices, cliche characters motivations, and flaccid prose.
Sanderson apparently can't feel pain, psychological or otherwise. He probably doesn't cringe when he reads his own hence why it is the way it is and why he can write so much so quickly.
>cedes all creative impulse in favour of the blandest, most tried-and-tested ossified story structures imaginable, cliches and tropes abound
This is still better than writing nothing, simple as.
>flaccid prose
And Rothfuss isn’t also writing slop? moronic hands wrote this post
I can't really hate on Sanderson. The dude's having fun and making money. Good for him.
Sanderson probably adheres to a schedule, probably writes for hours everyday.
This. I suspect Sanderson did work as a ghost writer during the late 90s early 2000s. The official story is that Robert Jordan's wife picked him to finish Wheel of Time because she was impressed with Mistborn, but it probably had more to do with him having a reputation of being a guy who could write to a publishers specifications and finish projects.
I never thought of that. You're probably right.
The original post in that chain is right. Sanderson talks about his writing schedule pretty regularly.
Wake up at noon
Write from like 1 to 5
Family time and dinner until midnight
Write from midnight to 4am
He most likely utilizes writing sprints. 33wpm is about 2,000 words an hour, which is very easy using sprints. I write at this pace and max out at about two hours before I need to stop. I'm sure with time I can get up to four hours of this. Him doing two separate groups of 4 is the secret. Refresh the mind. 16,000 words a day can get you a 150k novel very fast. Send it to your alpha readers to see if it sticks. If it does, revise, send to beta. If it doesn't, start over.
Most likely he sounds out two sets of content to his alpha readers each day. He may base his second half of the day writing on what the alpha readers have said.
The writing process is really not that hard. People peepee and poopoo about writing but it's just iteration. You don't need to write perfection, you just have to write decent.
I like stormlight archive. Don’t care about his other stuff.
So many words just to say nothing at all.
Sanderson is an excellent author, cope harder.
one is a moron and the other is a slow moron
Sanderson writes as much as he does because he takes it seriously. I can write 8,000 words a day, finish a first draft, edit it, send it out for editing, and publish a 50-80k word book every 6 weeks. It's schlock but it's really not hard to do. You just sit down and write.
Authors without a decent release schedule are shit tier.
Sanderson has the same kind of work ethic the people writing pulp magazines did back in the day. One guy would write stories for multiple writers in multiple magazines, under various pen names, and save their best/favorite stuff for their own name. Once you get into a solid routine and don't romanticize the writing process you can churn out a lot, especially if you are punctual with editors. Helps too to have a talented editor, multiple of them even. Other thing too from back in the day was that the pulp writers would be buddies with one another and send drafts so you had fellow professionals as alpha readers which is a really convenient source of feedback.
The kind of money he's making now he can employ a full time proof reader and editor and copywriter monkey just to check what he's doing live. Massively speeds up the process if in the afternoon he's already had his morning work checked and edited.
Though Trollope is still the big fish for me. 3000 words every morning, and then he goes out and holds down a demanding executive role at the post office
Passion vs money. Rothfuss is comfortable.
For GRRM, he has no idea what to do because he wrote himself in a corner.
how come i shit every day but i only get diarrhea sometimes?
After seeing enough BrandoSando threads I think I have figured out what peoples problem with him is. correct me if I am wrong but the main reasons are;
> He pumps out content so hard, he clearly must not be putting as much effort into it as someone that spends years.
> He is Morman. How dare a man of religion write a fiction novel.
> He is too autistic and doesn't understand character. Despite his characters being widely known as the primary reasons people read his books.
> His writing is too simplistic. Because who would want to appeal to an actual audience you can make money from.
> The magic systems are just generic things but with a quirky other cost instead of just mana. Right you are - better keep every magic system based on the exact same shit.
> You feel like you could have done a better job, but didn't and now you are here.
> He looks like pic related.
Did I miss anything?
> You feel like you could have done a better job, but didn't and now you are here.
This is the real reason