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lol I've been reading this thread for several years and there's still no progress
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Looking back fondly on the bygone days when this was the new Rothfuss thread.
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Feb 1, 2021 07:22
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WHY NOT DONE?
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Feb 1, 2021 08:14
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Wendigee posted:WHY NOT DONE? He's still working on his fifth pre-write. It's like writing, but it's where you just imagine how great and perfect it's going to be when you do it.
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Feb 1, 2021 08:25
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 Rothfuss gives more non-answers than a loving politician.
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Feb 1, 2021 19:23
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Solice Kirsk posted:
Yes, but it absolutely, completely does not matter. Redditor reacting to the Twitch Q&A posted:Woooooooo actual book news!!! I’m so hype Redditor reacting to the Twitch Q&A posted:I'm super keen for it. I think the fact that he's actually wanting to talk about it, even if he tells us nothing, is something. Redditor reacting to the Twitch Q&A posted:It seems to me, from my analysts couch that he was overwhelmed by the popularity of the books, and how strongly people feel about it. He is going to therapy and is terrified how people will be disappointed. And he can't do it. Hugest block of all time, and maybe saddest too. I wish him luck. I feel I understand much more now Redditor reacting to the Twitch Q&A posted:Wait... so all the people in this sub who heard that publisher's complaint, panicked, and instantly jumped to the conclusion that there was 0% chance the book would ever be published, with no reason to believe that, and then dominated this subreddit with their bitter laments every day since, may have been wrong?
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Feb 1, 2021 20:22
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Yes, but it absolutely, completely does not matter. Scifi fan Stockholm Syndrome is a hell of a thing.
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Feb 1, 2021 20:34
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I mean, that's just like politics too.
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Feb 1, 2021 20:36
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Yes, but it absolutely, completely does not matter. quote:Redditor reacting to the Twitch Q&A posted: This is truly a galaxy brain take. Apparently, a publisher publicly admitting they've seen nothing in like a decade from an author who is supposedly working hard on a book is "no reason to believe it will never published". Whereas a guy whose claim to fortune and fame relies on people believing he still might finish it claiming, with zero evidence and vague allusions, is plenty of reason to hold out hope. Obviously, if he's using "may" in the most literal of ways, then sure, they "may" be wrong [narrator - they were not wrong].
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Feb 1, 2021 21:46
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I found some leaked excerpts of The Doors of Stone (sorry, can't say where), and holy poo poo, I can't believe how wrong we've been. Rothfuss is a legend. This is going to be incredible.
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Feb 1, 2021 23:41
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The real book was the blog posts he made along the way.
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Feb 2, 2021 20:46
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I found some leaked excerpts of The Doors of Stone (sorry, can't say where), and holy poo poo, I can't believe how wrong we've been. Rothfuss is a legend. This is going to be incredible. This is loving awesome! I knew that editor was just jealous of the attention Rothfuss is getting. My concerns have been been put to bed!
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Feb 3, 2021 15:01
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I found some leaked excerpts of The Doors of Stone (sorry, can't say where), and holy poo poo, I can't believe how wrong we've been. Rothfuss is a legend. This is going to be incredible. Would you say that it's going to be a spectacle? BotL was right all along!
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Feb 3, 2021 15:09
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The Latest Rothfuss Blog posted:So far, this year has been fairly low-key over here at Rothco. I’ve been catching up on my sleep and getting my house in order. (Both literally and figuratively. My underwear drawer is *orderly* folks.) I’ve been livestreaming over on twitch fairly regularly. I’m mostly continuing my second play-through of Numenera, but I also dipped in to do some Among Us with Felicia and her crew last week. A game where I was categorically bad at everything and was forced to resort to use my Bene Gesserit powers. Now that sounds like a guy who's writing feverishly, just absolutely wringing himself creatively dry to get the final book out as people bug him constantly about it.
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Feb 3, 2021 16:06
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Now that sounds like a guy who's writing feverishly, just absolutely wringing himself creatively dry to get the final book out as people bug him constantly about it. God I love that in several sentences describing his year, writing isn't even tangentially mentioned. Fairly low-key indeed.
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Feb 3, 2021 16:10
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Meanwhile:
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Feb 3, 2021 16:21
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Even Martin wrote several hundred pages of Winds of Winter in the past year.
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Feb 3, 2021 16:27
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Ccs posted:Even Martin wrote several hundred pages of Winds of Winter in the past year. 
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Feb 3, 2021 17:19
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Now that sounds like a guy who's writing feverishly, just absolutely wringing himself creatively dry to get the final book out as people bug him constantly about it. Oh gently caress off Rothfuss. I barely have time to do anything between actually working and writing only a mere 1000 words a day.
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Feb 3, 2021 19:30
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Ccs posted:Even Martin wrote several hundred pages of Winds of Winter in the past year. 
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Feb 3, 2021 19:35
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Ccs posted:Even Martin wrote several hundred pages of Winds of Winter in the past year. Well, at least Martin was willing to write a blog claiming that he wrote.
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Feb 3, 2021 19:37
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Now that sounds like a guy who's writing feverishly, just absolutely wringing himself creatively dry to get the final book out as people bug him constantly about it. You can finish Numenera in like 5 hours. You are advised to do this because the game is trash.
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Feb 3, 2021 22:03
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Why does this moron think "Over the past year I've mostly been sleeping in and playing video games" is worthy of a status update? If that's the best you can offer up maybe just keep it to yourself.
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Feb 3, 2021 22:48
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I should note that even with a normal author pace of 2000 words a day I finished my first book in three months. It wasn't a long one, but god drat he should have SOMETHING written.
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Feb 3, 2021 22:54
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Human Tornada posted:Why does this moron think "Over the past year I've mostly been sleeping in and playing video games" is worthy of a status update? If that's the best you can offer up maybe just keep it to yourself. Because he (correctly) believes his fans want to hear about him doing nothing.
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Feb 3, 2021 23:31
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Evil Fluffy posted:Because he (correctly) believes his fans want to hear about him doing nothing. He doesn't want to write, he just wants to be known as "successful fantasy author".
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Feb 3, 2021 23:33
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The smart move was to use a pseudonym when writing the books and fake your death after the first year of writer's block
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Feb 4, 2021 01:18
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Rothfuss just needs to embrace "write what you know" and make book 3 about the Chronicler dude hassling him about when he's going to get around to killing that king.
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Feb 4, 2021 17:32
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Chronicler's wrist ached. He stared glassy eyed at the man before him, who was going on about yet another deflowered maiden. The innkeeper's mouth became wetter the more he talked, accentuating certain syllables with an irritating smack. Chronicler would have preferred silence.
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Feb 4, 2021 17:56
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Ccs posted:Chronicler's wrist ached like the wing of a swallow chased down by futility and grand dreams. He stared with eyes of cracked sea-glass at the man before him, who was strumming out the warp and weft of tales around yet another deflowered maiden, her innocence claimed as sure as tracks in the autumn earth. The innkeeper's mouth became wetter the more he talked, sodden with years, accentuating certain syllables with the smack of a lash at midnight beneath the waning moon. Chronicler would have preferred silence, though of how many parts, he could breathe not a word. ed: had a metaphor that was too coherent Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 18:20
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Feb 6, 2021 05:20
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eXXon posted:I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. quote:Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift no heavy-rear end weights.
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Feb 6, 2021 05:37
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Sham bam bamina! posted:ed: had a metaphor that was too coherent "Why use one word when you can use fifty incoherent ones" sums up Rothfuss pretty good.
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Feb 9, 2021 06:35
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Kchama posted:"Why use one word when you can use fifty incoherent ones" sums up Rothfuss pretty good. His new policy is "Why use one word when you can use zero"
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Feb 9, 2021 07:20
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Lottery of Babylon posted:His new policy is "Why use
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Feb 9, 2021 10:29
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While I was searching for a new fantasy series to read I came across "The Empire of Silence", which was pitched as a sci-fi combination of The Name of the Wind and Dune. Most people have given it good reviews but there's one observant goodreads reviewer who noted how much the author lifted. Ironically, this author actually has released his third book in the series, but since his series will apparently be 5 books perhaps he will pull a Rothfuss eventually. A selection of familiar passages... [Empire of Silence] So let us bypass history, sidestep the politics and the marching tramp of empires. Forget the beginnings of mankind in the fire and ash of Old Earth, and so too ignore the Cielcin rising in cold and from darkness. Those tales are recorded elsewhere in all the tongues of mankind and her subjects. Let us move to the only beginning I’ve a right to: my own. --- [The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)] Very well, for simplicity's sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love. Let us hurry forward to the only tale of any real importance." His smile broadened. "Mine." [Empire of Silence] During the war, I was Hadrian Halfmortal and Hadrian the Deathless. After the war, I was the Sun Eater. To the poor people of Borosevo, I was a myrmidon called Had. To the Jaddians, I was Al Neroblis. To the Cielcin, I was Oimn Belu and worse things besides. I have been many things: soldier and servant, captain and captive, sorcerer and scholar and little more than a slave. But before I was any of these, I was a son. --- [The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)] My first mentor called me E'lir because I was clever and I knew it. My first real lover called me Dulator because she liked the sound of it. I have been called Shadicar, Lightfinger, and Six-String. I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them. But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant 'to know.' [Empire of Silence] In my long life I have known too many palatines, men and women both, who so abused their underlings. There are words for creatures who so abuse their power, but none shall ever be applied to me. --- [The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)] Needless to say, I kept my distance. There are names for people who take advantage of women who are not in full control of themselves, and none of those names will ever rightfully be applied to me. [Empire of Silence] Her nostrils flared, and she leaned on what I would one day learn was her favorite swear word: "Imperials." --- [The Warrior's Apprentice (Lois McMaster Bujold) She went off toward the library, muttering her favorite swear word under her breath, "Barrayarans!" [Empire of Silence] My mother was late to my birth, and both my parents watched from a platform above the surgical theater while I was decanted from the vat. --- [Diplomatic Immunity (Lois McMaster Bujold)] She breathed a short laugh. "For all that I try to be all modern and galactic, that feels so strange. All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But 'My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it,' just seems ... seems like a more profound complaint, somehow." [Empire of Silence] I spun to face him, shrugged, and reframed my thought. “They have no say in being eaten. Pawns again. Biology is destiny.” --- [Miles Errant (Lois McMaster Bujold] "Biology is Destiny," gasped Miles, popping his eyes open.
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Feb 9, 2021 16:38
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Pretty sure that's a goon because I remember a similar breakdown of the book in this thread (or the previous iteration).
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Feb 9, 2021 16:50
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Ccs posted:While I was searching for a new fantasy series to read I came across "The Empire of Silence", which was pitched as a sci-fi combination of The Name of the Wind and Dune. Most people have given it good reviews but there's one observant goodreads reviewer who noted how much the author lifted. Ironically, this author actually has released his third book in the series, but since his series will apparently be 5 books perhaps he will pull a Rothfuss eventually. The Bujold ones seem a lot more of a stretch than the Rothfuss ones. "Biology is Destiny" is a famous phrase from Freud. The second Bujold one doesn't have anything really in common beyond the idea of a mother being late to their own child's birth and the first one is probably closest. The Rothfuss stuff is pretty indisputable though.
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Feb 9, 2021 16:52
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Maybe he can finish the book then
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Feb 9, 2021 21:24
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Kchama posted:The second Bujold one doesn't have anything really in common beyond the idea of a mother being late to their own child's birth In the Bujold universe in question, children are commonly gestated in vats and opening is referred to at least once as decanting.
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