Mastodawn

Wheel of Time book seven complete! Now on to Path of Daggers. But not tonight.

I’m very quickly approaching all new material because I believe I was partway thru eight when I stopped reading before.

If you haven’t read The Wheel of Time then this may not make sense to you. However having read WoT is no guarantee that it *will* make any sense to you.

#Blog #PersonalBlog #WheelOfTime #WoT

https://lessthannonsense.com/posts/nynaeve-almeara

Nynaeve al’Meara - Less than Nonsense

I’ve been working my way thru The Wheel of Time book series and once again Nynaeve stands out as not only one of my favorite characters in the series but possibly of any series that I’ve read to date. Her progression thru her character arc is great and it feels like every single bit of it is has been hard fought and earned. Mild spoilers possible ahead.

Less than Nonsense

Robbie 👾 (Author)Apr 23

I have recently been reading through Robert Jordan’s works. Man, Amazon really took some creative license with the world that he made.
#RobertJordan #WheelOfTime

K-Squared Ramblings Jun 17, 2014

The Shelves are Paved with (The Path of) Daggers

The only books left from the Wheel of Time back catalog at the end of the sale were the three you might expect people to leave on the shelf.

https://journal.kvibber.com/2014/06/path-of-daggers/

The Hollywood Reporter Apr 14

Fantasy Authors Are Not Playing: Creators Increasingly Call Out “Unfaithful” Adaptations
#TV #TVNews #GodofWar #HouseoftheDragon #TheLastofUs #TheWitcher #WheelofTime

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fantasy-authors-unfaithful-tv-adaptations-dragon-witcher-wheel-1236548941/

Fantasy Authors Are Not Playing: Creators Increasingly Call Out “Unfaithful” Adaptations

From 'House of the Dragon' to 'God of War' to 'The Witcher,' shows are getting smacked by creators for seeming to stray from source material. And there are reasons it's happening now.

The Hollywood Reporter

nuzcraft

Apr 11

Heck yea, just finished Eye of the World by Jordan and it is just so good. I’ve listened to the audiobook a couple times but this was my first time reading it. #Books #WoT #WheelOfTime

Diana the Writing Writer Mar 29

The Emond's Field Five in #TheEyeOfTheWorld #WheelOfTime leave at around 50k words in chapter 10.

I'm at around 40k words, chapter 12, and my "Illustrious Seven" are about to head out.

Of course, my "inciting incident" was nothing so grandiose as a Trolloc attack, to be sure (instead, my novel opens with the MC getting a letter stating that a certain king has been murderized to death by killing, a certain McGuffin has been stolen, and that this world's BBEG will wake soon. Quick, clean, to the point). Is it cliche? Yes. Do I care? No.

Sometimes cliches and tropes are there for a reason. And I'm writing more mythology than fantasy anyway, with living gods interfering and meddlin' with mortal lives, ala the Odyssey and Iliad, where gods can be killed ala the Norse tradition of Ragnarok, and where mortals are divine touched ala [take your pick].

This isn't some basic bitch fantasy tradition grounded in Tolkien and riffing on Jordan with a dash of Erikson for flavor.

This is someone who's read the Poetic AND Prose Edda, who's read her Homer, who's read her Gilgamesh, who's read every bit of Arthurian Lore she can get her hands on, and who's not only read Hamilton's "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes," and Campbell's "The Hero With a Thousand Faces," but who wrote papers on the Monomyth in university.

I completely deconstruct the classic notion of Elves. They're beautiful, yes. But in the world's past, they're conquerors, colonizers. Now they're a shadow of that, their empire having fallen (thanks to a certain king and his knights that sat around a circular table).

I deconstruct the notion that darkness is evil. The world ITSELF was birthed from "The Living Dark, Where No Light Shines," and the Creator and His brother (the Kinslayer, the BBEG) forged the world and all living things FROM that darkness. From the sparks of their forging the Light of Life sprung forth, and Divine Shadows were cast.

There is no light without shadows, and darkness is not evil.

Even the BBEG himself is not EVIL, just... Entropy and Chaos, whereas the Creator was Order and Structure.

Yeah. This ain't yo mama's fantasy.

Though it does have an Orpheus in the Underworld arc.

Only, ya know... Orpheus actually succeeds in rescuing Eurydice in this one.

(Also Eurydice may or may not be havin' a hot lezzy relationship with the Queen of the Dead, but who's counting?)

So yeah. Anyway. I'm rambling when I should be writing.

Diana the Writing Writer Mar 26

Who wrote 6500 words on their novel in the past 12 hours?

THIS GAL.

Is it good?

Probably not.

But hey! This is the vomit draft, and Legend of the Fallen Prince is now at 37k words!

For context, my NOVELLA that's with an EDITOR, Vomit Draft was 36k words (final draft, pre-editor, 43k words). So, my NOVEL is at 37k words now.

And it's not even a quarter of the way done.

Yeah, I'm #WheelOfTime ing this shit. We're talking, as far as timeline wise to compare the two, they've not even left Emond's Field yet (in this case, the City of Mal/the King's Blessing Inn).

Yeah, I'm 37k words in, and the main characters have yet to really even meet.

Hells, TWO of the Illustrious Seven (actually eight people, but eight is an unlucky number, see?) haven't even been introduced yet! And two of the ones that HAVE been haven't had a PoV chapter! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Can't tell I was influenced by ol' Tollers and RJ at all, can ya?! 😜

Couple that with how I write relationships, and it's pretty damn clear my influences from Robin Hobb are showing, and my magic system is CLEAR that Brando the Mando Sando's finger prints are everywhere.

That said, these people INFLUENCED and INSPIRED me. I'm not lifting or riffing or ripping off.

Well, maybe riffing on Tolkien a bit, since it's Norse Myth and Arthurian Legend...