Friday, October 22, 2010

I Am A Booky Nerd - Brandon Sanderson?????

This past week, I had the pleasure of going to Utah to visit my older sisters and go tour a few schools. As part of our regular Utah Tradition, I also got to go to BYU bookstore.

Going in to the Science Fiction/Fantasy section, I notice that there is a very prominent display of books set up at the front of the aisle. Upon closer examination, I saw that the display revolved around the recent works of a certain author by the name of Brandon Sanderson.

Now, just to set the record straight, I had read a few of Mr. Sanderson's books before seeing this display. This is not like my introduction into Twilight (lesson learned - never take reading suggestions from girls my own age). This display simply made me remember those books that I had read, and made me reflect on them. Key word: MADE me.

Now, the first book I ever read by Brandon Sanderson was the first book in the Mistborn series. My dad had borrowed it from the library (if I remember correctly) and when he finished with it he let me read it (this was, once again, one of my book-less periods).

I liked it. It was decent. Not necessarily amazing, but still a LOT better than a lot of other fantasy books I've subjected myself to in the past. Maybe, someday, I'll read the sequel. Maybe the entire series. But so far, I haven't been especially motivated to do so, which will give you some idea of what the books were like.

At any rate, after reading Mistborn, I decided to read his debut novel, Elantris. Again, I was somewhat impressed, but not spectacularly so. It was a good book. Just not an amazing one.

So you see that there is a pattern with Mr. Sanderson's books, at least with me. I'm sure that other people would love his books, but I am not those people. That is the way of things. And so it is.

I'm not sure why I am blogging this, but there you have it. Have a loverly day. :3

Friday, October 15, 2010

Back To Earth (sort of...?)

Aha! Ahahahahaha! Ha!

I am BACK, baby! And, boy, have I got something to tell YOU!

Well, sort of. It's something that no one will care about but me, but I think it still warrants a blog post.

You remember that webcomic I was going to do? That supposedly full-color fantasy webcomic? Of COURSE you don't!

Well anyway, there's been a....semi-change of the plans.

I have decided that full-color is overrated and decided to go with greyscale.

(Translation: I have no freakin' idea how to color hand-inked images on PhotoShop and so I gave up trying to find out)

The plot's changed a bit as well - my original idea was......really complex. I didn't realize how complicated it was until I started on it and got lost in my own story. So, while I intend to do that story when I'm a wee bit more experienced at some obscure point in the future, I am going to do a slightly less complex one. I am actually really looking forward to this, as I have wondered what to do with this particular idea for a long time and now finally have an excuse to use it.

So there you have it.