I Hate Dragons
by Brandon Sanderson 
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Having someone throw this at me (Trish) and run off, I had to read it.
At first glance, it's very self-conscious and writing conscious and self-referential and for all these things... it's a mess. But it's supposed to be a mess. I can see that.
He fiddled around with it between projects, just playing around!
But for all that, it's still funny and clever and all over the place and weird, so there's that going for it!
BAIT indeed.
(Just between you and me, I think this bait is working on MANY levels. Drawing in poor unsuspecting victims to his writing being only ONE of them.) :)
At first glance, it's very self-conscious and writing conscious and self-referential and for all these things... it's a mess. But it's supposed to be a mess. I can see that.
He fiddled around with it between projects, just playing around!
But for all that, it's still funny and clever and all over the place and weird, so there's that going for it!
BAIT indeed.
(Just between you and me, I think this bait is working on MANY levels. Drawing in poor unsuspecting victims to his writing being only ONE of them.) :)
Winter 2021 (January);
This was written as a writing exercise with the internet, as a challenge to tell an entire story in just dialogue. It's a good showing of Sanderon's ability to bandy the spoken (rather than just 'written' word) and to develop characterization only through what people say to themesleves/each other. But. It's definitely missing the magic of Sanderson's prose, which I found myself missing even as he completed the challenge as set out in the rules.
This was written as a writing exercise with the internet, as a challenge to tell an entire story in just dialogue. It's a good showing of Sanderon's ability to bandy the spoken (rather than just 'written' word) and to develop characterization only through what people say to themesleves/each other. But. It's definitely missing the magic of Sanderson's prose, which I found myself missing even as he completed the challenge as set out in the rules.
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Brandon Sanderson was born on December 19, 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in creative writing from Brigham Young University. His first book, Elantris, was published in 2005. His other works include the Mistborn series, the Stormlight Archive series, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians show more series, and the Reckoners series. In 2007, he was chosen by Harriet Rigney to complete A Memory of Light, book twelve in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. He has continued the series with Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light. In 2018 his title, White Sand Volume 2, made the Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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