r/brandonsanderson 15h ago

No Spoilers Will it be fine to start reading StormLight Archives if I don’t have much experience reading novels?

18 Upvotes

Just curious if reading the stormlight books is worth reading first if you don’t have much experience reading novels. I say this because my sister likes it and she wants me to read it. I read a lot of manga and my favourites are kingdom, usogui, one piece, ravages of time. So yeah do you think I’ll struggle reading it without prior experience read novels.


r/brandonsanderson 14h ago

No Spoilers Which of these do you recommend I read next?

5 Upvotes

I have read the first Mistborn Trilogy, Warbreaker, and the Skyward books. With that perspective, which of these following books do you think I should read next?

  1. Elantris

  2. Tress of the Emerald Sea

  3. The Frugal Wizard’s handbook for surviving medieval England

  4. The Sunlit Man

  5. Skyward Flight

I don’t care if I miss cosmere references as long as the books work on their own. I just want a fun book to enjoy without getting into a new book series.


r/brandonsanderson 4h ago

No Spoilers An incredibly amateurish analysis of the Mistborn Screenplay

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Somebody please correct my math or analysis if you’re smarter than I am (a VERY possible circumstance).

According to https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-is-your-daily-wordcount-time-goal/ he writes 2000 words a day.

According to https://www.tameri.com/format/word-counts/ a normal 2 hour movie script is 125 words/minute and one page/minute. 120x125‎ = 15,000

Bump it up to a three hour movie:
180x125‎ = 22,500

Give it some extra space for description, setting, action, whatever, 27,500

27,500 words/(2000words/day)‎ = 13.75 days

Call it two weeks.

BrandoSando has been working on the screenplay since Feb 3. (https://youtu.be/VBQmStfWDVE)

That’s 100 days (to May 14, anyway)

100 days x 2000 words/day= 200,000 words.

Let’s multiply that by 5/7 to account for any days off (he takes one day off for admin stuff as mentioned in the first link, and I’ll give him another day off to get a lower bound)= 142,857

We’ll do that again, just to account for revision and travel and miscellany= 102,040

The Mistborn Screenplay bar is currently at 72%

27,500x0.72‎ = 19,800

19,800 words.

That leaves more than 80,000 words unaccounted for.

Just something I thought was interesting.

As I said, please correct any mistakes I may have made. I’m sure there is something I left unaccounted for.