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6/27/2025, 5:46:15 AM
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Sanderson is the fascinating product of a writer who has very little voice of his own, and is very receptive of criticism. The problem being that Sanderson's audience and his critical responders are overwhelmingly braindead redditors.
If you look at the first Stormlight Archives books (1 and 2 are actually pretty good if not the best thing ever) you can see the DNA of his style in its raw form. Way of Kings is essentially an inspirational sports movie, with Kaladin as the burned out coach getting one last chance to reform a team of misfits. Except, they're all slaves and the sport is suicidal rushes into enemy fire.
This is cool, it's handled well, Kaladin's suicidal depression is believable, the language used in the story is a bit quirky but good, the worldbuilding is a bit excessive at times but it feels in place as you're exploring this new world through the eyes of the characters, and it's easy to be invested in these people who are getting constantly fucked over but keep on trying. Even the magic was kind of cool in how he approached it.
But over the next several books, because people praised these elements of the story profusely without pushing back, Sanderson escalates and escalates until the story is ABOUT Kaladin's suicidal depression, the language is ALL quirk, the worldbuilding is 80% of the pagecount, and the characters are ALL getting fucked CONSTANTLY. And the magic just keeps expanding and getting more and more elaborate. Left behind is the plot, the actual meat of the story gradually becomes a vehicle for these things, rather than they adornments for the story.
This is because Sanderson's editor retired, and he essentially substituted in "proofreaders" who were dumb reddit faggots. They demanded trannies and fags (not kidding) and he put them in, they demanded "mental health" shit so now every single character is mentally ill, they demanded more quirk chungus so now everyone is quirk chungus.
If Sanderson were surrounded by people who actually cared about writing, he'd probably be fucking great, his downfall is the result of bad influences not anything inherent to himself, because there is nothing inherent to himself except autism and work ethic. He can't differentiate between good and bad criticism, good and bad advice. I really hope he gets some better feedback in the future.
Sanderson is the fascinating product of a writer who has very little voice of his own, and is very receptive of criticism. The problem being that Sanderson's audience and his critical responders are overwhelmingly braindead redditors.
If you look at the first Stormlight Archives books (1 and 2 are actually pretty good if not the best thing ever) you can see the DNA of his style in its raw form. Way of Kings is essentially an inspirational sports movie, with Kaladin as the burned out coach getting one last chance to reform a team of misfits. Except, they're all slaves and the sport is suicidal rushes into enemy fire.
This is cool, it's handled well, Kaladin's suicidal depression is believable, the language used in the story is a bit quirky but good, the worldbuilding is a bit excessive at times but it feels in place as you're exploring this new world through the eyes of the characters, and it's easy to be invested in these people who are getting constantly fucked over but keep on trying. Even the magic was kind of cool in how he approached it.
But over the next several books, because people praised these elements of the story profusely without pushing back, Sanderson escalates and escalates until the story is ABOUT Kaladin's suicidal depression, the language is ALL quirk, the worldbuilding is 80% of the pagecount, and the characters are ALL getting fucked CONSTANTLY. And the magic just keeps expanding and getting more and more elaborate. Left behind is the plot, the actual meat of the story gradually becomes a vehicle for these things, rather than they adornments for the story.
This is because Sanderson's editor retired, and he essentially substituted in "proofreaders" who were dumb reddit faggots. They demanded trannies and fags (not kidding) and he put them in, they demanded "mental health" shit so now every single character is mentally ill, they demanded more quirk chungus so now everyone is quirk chungus.
If Sanderson were surrounded by people who actually cared about writing, he'd probably be fucking great, his downfall is the result of bad influences not anything inherent to himself, because there is nothing inherent to himself except autism and work ethic. He can't differentiate between good and bad criticism, good and bad advice. I really hope he gets some better feedback in the future.
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