![]() ![]() I pitched Mistorn as a series of trilogies, which many of you probably already know. One of my personal mandates as a lover of the epic fantasy genre is to try to take what has been done before and push the stories in directions I think the genre hasn’t looked at often enough. For aesthetic reasons, I wanted a fantasy world that changed, that grew updated and modernized. With Mistborn, I wanted to do something different. We’ll get novels on Hoid’s origins, then jump all the way to the end and get novels from his viewpoint late in the entire Cosmere sequence. Dragonsteel, for example, will be kind of a bookend series. ![]() Other series touch on the idea of long-standing characters. One of these is the Stormlight Archive, where we have the Heralds who span ages, and which I eventually decided to break into two distinct arcs. For this reason, I built into the outline a couple of “core” series. As I was developing the Cosmere, I knew I wanted a few threads to span the entire mega-sequence, which was going to cover thousands of years. However, for those who want to dig deeper into what’s going on here, I wanted to talk about the Mistborn series as a whole. (Or if you’re not interested in the writing side of why I make the decisions I do.) I talked in a previous post about the book release, and will point you toward that one if you’ve not read much of the Mistborn series. Shadows of Self is out today in hardcover in the UK, and I’m touring the UK this week and next. ![]()
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