#Dan Wells

[valerieofavonlea]

Dan Wells is working on three cosmere projects: one that is bizarrely weird that no one will guess, one with Isaac Stewart that will cover a gap of time we all want to know about, and one that happens concurrently with Words of Radiance (same time in the cosmere, unclear if it's a stormlight project)

Commence speculating

#dragonsteel #brandon sanderson #cosmere #cfsbf #dan wells #stormlight archive #sam says stuff #sam is at dragonsteel con and might have more updates

[onlycosmere]

Brandon Sanderson: It is, frankly, a bit of a miracle that this [Secret Project Five] manifests in the middle of Stormlight Five. And it only did because I had a little bit of momentum on it from a number of years ago.

And you'll find out once that is once we do more of the reveals. But it's something I've been writing on for maybe seven, eight years.

I wrote a bunch of this in Hawaii last year. I took some time and relaxed; I actually had two trips to Hawaii last year, one with the whole family, and then one with just myself and Emily. And that's where the bulk of this was written, was during those two trips.

Dan Wells: Secret Project Five is much shorter and more compact. It's got, I think, really only two POVs.

Brandon Sanderson: Something else I wanted to talk about with this. You mentioned High Cosmere Connectivity; I worked forever trying to figure out how to write that phrase. Because it had to fit in, like, two or three words on the screen. And it had to explain... and I'm not sure if people will understand, even still, what we're getting across.

Because what I really wanted to say is: this book isn't intended for first-time Cosmere readers (though if you are a first-time Cosmere reader and you understand that, you'll probably have a good time). The rest of you probably should read a few Cosmere books before you pick this one up, then you will really enjoy it better.

That's what I wanted to write; that's not three words.

If they know they're jumping into future era where there's a lot more Cosmere connectivity... but, the story reads just fine on its own. There are plenty of people who could read this book, not know anything, and enjoy it quite a bit. It doesn't require you to have read other books to understand. But...

And some people don't like a lot of Cosmere connections. And this one does have them. It's got characters from multiple different planets; some you've seen, some you haven't. And it's taking place, kind of dealing with future era sort of stuff. I think most readers will enjoy it, but I do want you to be aware of that, right? There are some people who are just like, "I just want to read Stormlight Archive, and I don't want to worry about the larger mess."

And this is probably not something they would like.

Dan Wells: One of the things, as I was reading it (because I was keeping this idea in mind of how accessible is it to new readers), in a lot of ways I think... Imagine Lord of the Rings, except it starts after they've already left the Shire.

So you don't actually get to see the homeland of anyone in the Fellowship. But you hear about their homeland, and they brag about their homeland to each other. That still works, right?

It's very Guardians of the Galaxy; other than Earth, you don't really see anyone's homeworld. But you can accept, "Okay, these are all the adventurers that have come together to do the thing."

#cosmere #brandon sanderson #dan wells #wob #cfsbf #root #long post #ssp5 #isles of the emberdark

[grrrenadine]

Since Spooktober has rolled around again, I wanna give a shoutout to a project that @snailontheslope and I made two years agp. We watched and reviewed 13 Irish movies in various subgenres of horror, and the end result is a fully illustrated zine available for $1+ on Gumroad (link in source).

These are all the illustrations featured inside. Enjoy and happy reading!

@zine-scene

#13 irish horrors #horror #monochrome #interview with the vampire #i am not a serial killer #shrooms #grabbers #a dark song #the killing of a sacred deer #colin farrell #dan wells #the little stranger #sarah waters #zines #my art

[libralita]

I don't often listen to Intentional Blank but when I do...

Brandon: This group of bear burglars (bearglars) could be called The Constitution Dan, laughing: Why would they be called the Constitution? Brandon: The right to bear arms :D Dan: oh my gosh...

#brandon sanderson #cosmere #noncosmere #dan wells

[hacked-by-nymos]

𝙄 𝘼𝙢 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 - 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 (2016) 𝙙𝙞𝙧. 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙊'𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣

#It breaks my heart how much the app hates gifs #john wayne cleaver #i am not a serial killer #dan wells #i'm not a serial killer #inask #i am not a serial killer john #movie gifs #max records #john wayne cleaver gifs #my gifs #*hackedgifs #*hackedfandom #not dw

[wyndlerunner]

A podcast notification has never given me so much joy before

#Brandon sanderson #Dan wells #intentionally blank podcast #intentionally blank #the stormlight archive #stormlight archive #cosmere #muppets #Cosmere live action adaptation #Stormlight live action

[fraseslibros]

"Me pregunté, entonces, si estaba haciendo todo esto porque quería salvar a los buenos o solo quería matar al malo. Y me pregunté si había alguna diferencia.

Dan Wells, No soy un serial killer

#dan #wells #dan wells #no soy un serial killer #frases libros #frases de libros #frases en español #frases #spanish quotes #spanish #quote #quotes #john cleaver #booklr #book

[theimpalatales]

Really interesting discussion of publicity in the publishing industry

#brandon sanderson #dan wells #intentionally blank #writeblr #publishing #tbe #Youtube

[sarascamander]

I love John Cleaver as a character so much, but I will never forgive him for what he did to Brooke. She's my baby girl and deserves better 😭

#the fact that his monologue actual say that he's only protecting her bc Marci in her #sir i think not #don't do my girl like that #the fact that they can be such an amazing duo #the POTENTIAL there #but he treated Brooke badly (unintentionally but still) half of the time #the way he left her in the end — #i can't istg #i can forgive him for his manslaughter manipulate mansplain #but Brooke is where i draw the fucking line #brooke watson #john cleaver #john wayne cleaver #i am not a serial killer #dan wells

[midnights-wish]

Full titles for the last two, as they didn't fit:

'Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History'

'The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York'

So, I always like to buy five books at a time, in order to avoid a gigantic physical to-be-read pile. I'm almost through my current one, so I want to decide which books to order next. I've already settled on two, since they're sequels to what I read recently, but can't decide on the other three, since I have a few contestants I can't really choose between. So I figured I'd try settling this using a poll -- I'll order the three books that have the most votes.

Thank you for helping!

#book poll #please help #thank you #books #books to buy #books to read #book blog #booklr #to be read #books and literature #poll #i am not a serial killer #dan wells #women #charles bukowski #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #taylor jenkins reid #cannibalism: a perfectly natural history #bill schutt #patricia wynne #the poisoners handbook #deborah blum

[constantlyonarollercoaster]

John

#art #illustration #drawing #artwork #artist #artists on tumblr #digitalpainting #movies #cinema #john gacy cleaver #max records #maxwell records #i am not a serial killer #billy obrien #dan wells #Spotify

[pepitobondioli]

Guys, if you are trying to be a teenager, do NOT take John as a role model 🙅

#John Cleaver #Dan Wells #I'm not a serial killer #No soy un serial killer #this fandoms needs memes #shitpost #John's like the edgyest teen ever #I love him

[onlycosmere]

Not a writer at all: What's it like handing over keys to parts of the Cosmere to Dan and others? How do you see this collaboration working in the future once stories begin overlapping more?

Brandon Sanderson: It's very interesting. It's been, in some ways, a little bit easier than some of the other things.

One of the things I realized in doing some of my collaborations that I did in the past was that handing over a story that I had been working on was actually kind of hard. Like, I didn't get to write the story. And once someone else wrote it, then it was written, and there was a part of me that was kind of a little bit sad.

(Though some of those stories turned out fantastically, like The Original, which I wrote with Mary Robinette. She wrote it in a way I couldn't have.)

But with the Cosmere stories, we decided we're not doing that. What's happening with both Isaac and Dan (who are working on Cosmere stories) is, we sat down and we brainstormed stories in the Cosmere using some of my worldbuilding and things, but stories they wanted to tell that match who they are and their voices.

So these are not books that I was planning to write, that I had outlined. These are books we're, like, "You know what? It'll work better if someone else doesn't just try to do a Brandon story that Brandon was planning to write, and instead we let them take the worldbuilding, the basis, and extrapolate from it."

So Dan and Isaac and I have a brainstorming session every week, and we are working on just, right now, the worldbuilding and the plotting for Dan's story. And we've been spending a lot of time on it. It'll probably be another six months or a year before he even starts writing it, because we want to get it absolutely right. And it's a story that's doing the themes and what-not that Dan is really interested in.

We're just (Isaac and I) making sure to help out and make sure it fits in the Cosmere. So I think it's gonna be a different kind of collaboration that I think is gonna work really well.

And I'm excited by it. There's nothing for this one that I'm like, "Oh, I wish I could write that." It is absolutely a Dan story built for Dan. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I won't say anything about it. I want Dan to come on and be able to talk about what's exciting, why he's made the decisions he has.

But I'll say this: one of the nice things, we're in a spot where we can do something I never got to do when I was younger. Which is: have an art team do concept art. So Dan can say "I need this," and then the concept art team goes and comes back with twenty different versions of a worldbuilding thing done by three different artists, that he can be like "Oh, this is the one; extrapolate on this." It's actually a lot of fun.

Having a concept art team is something that most writers never get to have, and I am really excited to be able to have it.

#cosmere #dan wells #brandon sanderson #cosmere future #cfsbf #root #wob #long post

[iwillberunningfromdemons]

Haven't read anything Dan Wells has written, but I'm very glad that we'll be getting even more Cosmere! Maybe in a few years time, if more writers would be added, there would be a whole team writing about the Cosmere under Sanderson, and a lot more releases than now. Well, that's just wishful thinking...

#maybe i'm a little too optimistic #brandon sanderson #cosmere #dan wells #stormlight archive #mistborn

[libralita]

I can't believe that Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells said that Iron Man 3 is the best Iron Man. I thought Mormons couldn't do drugs.

#brandon sanderson #dan wells #memes #intentionally blank

[wyndlerunner]

You know how there are some authors that are widely speculated/generally believed to have ghost writers making their stories? (Looking at you, James Patterson)

I love that Brandon Sanderson is really upfront with his fans when he has an idea he doesn’t have the time/specific skill to execute. He actually gives credit to his collaborators and is honest about how much of the labor they contributed

#listening to the newest Intentionally blank podcast and thinking about how cool it is #that he doesn’t feel the need to assert himself as the ultimate creative force in every project he works on #intentionally blank #Brandon sanderson #Dan wells #Janci Patterson #cosmere #the dark one #ghost writers