🧙♂️ Sci-fi and fantasy author. ⚙️ Engineer. 🚼 Dad. 🚀 Optimist. 📚 Read my books: https://xitter.cf/t.co/cOSTyIiFSF ✍️ Current project: Sibling Suns 3
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I've been deep in the revision mines, but I can finally emerge into daylight.
Sibling Suns 3 second draft is FINISHED!
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🗡️ COVER REVEAL 🗡️
The Father of Shadow and Death has a new cover, illustrated by the amazing @RequezaJoe
Design by @RachelBostwick (superb work as ever) and series icon by @wyndagger 🔥
What to expect:
🐕 A mangy pup
👻 Madness and monsters
👨👩👧👦 Chosen people gone wrong
I liked Sanderson so much better before the Cosmere elements became the point of every story. I'm sure r/brandonsanderson eats this up, but asides like this are basically gobbledygook to me.
When it rains, it pours. We have a narrator cast for the Sibling Suns 3 audiobook, and cover art is underway!
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The Sin of War is out today!
It’s always a strange feeling when a book you’ve spent so long working on finally belongs to everyone else.
Hope you enjoy this one ⚔️
In Hudson NY for a long anniversary weekend! This place came with a nicer map than most fantasy books have
One of the form's questions is whether anything might prevent you from finishing the reading in November and December. And one of the responses is "GTA 6", which... yeah, fair.
Want to help shape the Sibling Suns finale?
I'm looking for 4 or 5 alpha readers who've read both books and can read ~150k words from Nov to Jan.
You'll get a signed paperback and a character—or possibly a monkey—named after you.
Apply by Sept 30:
forms.gle/XppgHwomPhnHJWeu6
Benny wants a bedtime story every night now, but he just flips through the pages at about 200 WPM before moving onto the next book.
Goodnight Moon is currently competing against his preferred format, Goodnight Moon speedrun, any%
Was spending my morning setting up a custom lock screen the best use of my time? Maybe not. But it does make me very happy.
I love Linux
Want to help shape the Sibling Suns finale?
I'm looking for 4 or 5 alpha readers who've read both books and can read ~150k words from Nov to Jan.
You'll get a signed paperback and a character—or possibly a monkey—named after you.
Apply by Sept 30:
forms.gle/XppgHwomPhnHJWeu6
If you don't constantly curate your For You timeline, it inevitably reverts to slop and political.
Stay vigilant, people.
Hello from Lubuntu! My writing laptop is now fully debloated, and Windows is officially out of my life.
I've now got two Linux machines and two Macs. Feels like emerging from the coal mines and breathing fresh air.
C.S. Lewis has quickly become one of my favorite authors. Incredibly clear thinker and writer. I haven't read a book of his that I did not enjoy.
C.S. Lewis: favorable conditions NEVER come
ALT There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
This is fantastic news! The people most inconvenienced by this are those trying to lie and pass off AI writing as their own. Reliable AI provenance of this sort solves so many problems.
I literally could not do my job without Obsidian. Nor could I write my books. It's the home base for all of my productivity and organization.
Top tier app. First thing I install on any new machine.
Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?". A tool doesn't accomplish anything on its own. A tool is a means to an end.
A few days ago, someone jokingly asked if Henry Ford had a personal knowledge base in Obsidian. Well, sort of! He had something he called "jot books", where he journaled, kept notes, grocery lists, etc... Not dissimilar to how people use Obsidian. The Henry Ford Museum has fifty of these notebooks.
How should we quantify the impact of Henry Ford's notebooks? How should we quantify the impact of spreadsheets?
Most people who accomplish anything take notes in some form, because writing is a way of thinking. We love to mythologize the tools and methods of accomplished people because we hope it will let us absorb a bit of their genius. But a good camera doesn't make a good photographer. Taking lots of photos helps.
Should you take notes? Probably. Does it matter what your method is? Probably not. Whatever works for you. Obsidian (or any other form of notetaking) is successful if it disappears and lets you accomplish your work.