New Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter makes million dollar campaigns look tiny

[Eyes of Nine]

Guess I should read the first volume of Stormlight Archives I've got lying around here somewhere and see what the hullabaloo is all about...

 

[darkwillow]

Brandon rocks, love his youtube channel teaching you to write.
When I started searching fantasy to read a few years ago him and Brian McClellan (Powder Mage), Mark Lawrence (Price of Thorns) were stand outs for me.
Its so hard to find fantasy that I can read now that I'm older. No idea why its difficult to write.

 

[Zaukrie]

Brandon rocks, love his youtube channel teaching you to write.
When I started searching fantasy to read a few years ago him and Brian McClellan (Powder Mage), Mark Lawrence (Price of Thorns) were stand outs for me.
Its so hard to find fantasy that I can read now that I'm older. No idea why its difficult to write.

Did you just type you don't know why it is hard to write good fiction?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

How much money could a Kickstarter for the following raise-

Kickintheposterior- Pledge money to get George R. R. Martin to write pages. Any pages.

 

[darkwillow]

Did you just type you don't know why it is hard to write good fiction?

As in D&D Fantasy fiction. I'm not a writer so I don't know much about writing. But I know beyond Harry Potter, GoT, LOTR and a dozen more, its incredibly hard to find fantasy books I can read as an older adult. I tried to read Forgotten Realms books (I loved Drizzt 30 years ago), but as much as I love Ed Greenwood, I just can't sit through it. I guess you have to be a bored teenager to do it.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

As in D&D Fantasy fiction. I'm not a writer so I don't know much about writing. But I know beyond Harry Potter, GoT, LOTR and a dozen more, its incredibly hard to find fantasy books I can read as an older adult. I tried to read Forgotten Realms books (I loved Drizzt 30 years ago), but as much as I love Ed Greenwood, I just can't sit through it. I guess you have to be a bored teenager to do it.

I would not put it that drastically, but yeah, 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, I read tons of fantasy and sci-fi, but nowadays nothing newer really catches with me, no matter how good other people say it is. And yeah, some of the stuff I loved in the 80's and 90's just does not click any more either.

 

[cavetroll]

I recently read "A Wizard of Earthsea" again and I was surprised, it was just as good as when I was a kid. Though its not a long book.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The stuff I liked in the 80's 90's I don't really appreciate now. However there's a lot of new stuff that is not "high fantasy" that I'm liking

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

It's official, this Kickstarter is now the most money-making Kickstarter ever.

 

[cavetroll]

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