Yep. Write for yourself first and derive what you will from that. As with anything creative, it doesn't have to make money or gain attention for it to be rewarding.
I really like your take on disabled characters. I’m a paraplegic and it always makes me feel good to see someone being conscious about us. No need to lay it on, just have a few of us cripples around for spice, ya know.
Variety _is_ the spice of life. Not straight, white, able-bodied, mentally healthy cisgender men... although they can be OK. They're kinda like carbs. You don't actually need hardly any, but you gotta admit, just having lots of them for all occasions is a really convenient and doable option in this economy. ...I'm gonna go eat a bag of mixed nuts.
The variety is very important, but making that variety feel genuine as also important. Inserting all varieties of people just for the sake of doing it isn't great. It's pretty easy to tell when somebody's pandering towards a particular audience, and it's generally much more offensive than helpful. Additionally, there's so many varieties of people it's very difficult to insert everything. If you insert a lesbian then a gay guy might want you to also have a gay character, you insert a black guy, then a Latin dude may feel that they want some representation, people are always going to want characters that are relatable to them, so there's no end to it. You probably need to insert a hundred people or more to include all the sexualities, races, and other sub+genres of people, like the disabled mentally or physically. Those who are vertically challenged as well. I digress, I do love how he handles most of these things though.
Thank you Mr. Rothfuss for your time and advice :) I can honestly say, your book came to me by pure and virgin like curiousity, literally seeing your book in the shop, not knowing anything about it or about you, and buying it because I fell in love with the title and the cover, as simple as that At first I was skeptical when I started reading although I was immediately captured by the first few chapters but then I worried it would be too similar to Harry Potter and the likes, but how wrong I was when I continued on reading and I literally swallowed your book whole in just a matter of days, and now I'm already half way through your second book and I'll surely be waiting eagerly for your third! If anything, you will leave me dreaming of the scenes and the characters and jealous coz I want to create such a world as well but oh Lord I'm sure that's not an easy task 😅 a bravo from a complete stranger, enjoying your story, knowing it deserves to be a movie(s) or series but even then, it wouldn't give your creativity justice! Thank you again for your work and world! God bless 😊🍒
Want to write? Write!!!! That’s like asking someone how to run a marathon. Are you supposed to go through a description of the physical act of running? No. You just do it. One does by doing. It’s like a Forrest Gump quote; simple and deep, both at once. To write, write. To write better, write more. To write even better, read when you aren’t writing. But above all else: get the friggin words down, dummy! You aren’t going to be Hemingway, but you (hopefully) won’t be on par with your friend misspelled FB posts. One word, then two. Then three. Keep going until the end. There ya go: the secret to writing!!!! Shhhhh! Don’t tell anyone! It’s a secret!
*friends’ not friend (or if you’re like me and have only a single friend: *friend’s 😢😉) That sure was an ironic typo. I guess that’s what I get for making fun of hypothetical FB status posts. Foiled again by my own hubris!
It's so Great to see the author of my most life-changing Novel Ever, stream videos on an almost regular basis. It's really good to see Patrick Ruthfuss doing pretty good.
Thanks for this, your tips are very intuitive! I had no idea you did steaming, very cool. Also I will just add, reading your books makes me very happy, so thanks for those too!
You got #1 of Heinlein’s Rules for Writers down Pat (Pun intended), but need to work on 2 thru 5. Robert A. Heinlein’s 5 Rules For Writers 1. You must write. 2. You must finish what you write. 3. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order. 4. You must put the work on the market. 5. You must keep the work on the market until it is sold. Amateur writers often think the more you edit the better your work will become.
@@Eval999 Interesting definition of great you have. Name these other great Authors that wrote two books in a trilogy, then a side book to that trilogy, and is now telling all his fans to fuck off you get the third maybe when he gets around to it. Writers write books. He’s doing everything but that. He’s only a published author because he wrote a series, that looks like by his actions that he does not plan on finishing.
Hi Patrick, how are you? My brother (whom lives in Belgium) purchased the game Tak...what an amazing board-game. Really brilliant. We spent a lot of time playing that last year. Can't wait to go back to visit him (once Covid is under control) so that I can play some more :-)
PS: for anyone who hasn't played Tak yet, do yourself a favour and try it. The rules are very simple but once you start looking at strategies, you will get so immersed and you will find an infinite number of possibilities. Truly engrossing game.
I kind of accidentally stumbled upon The Eolian a few weeks back... I just wanted to say that I massively enjoy your channel, your vids and that glorious beard. In fact I was severely tempted to dedicate my first book to your beard. Once it releases in english, I... really still might. ;) All the best from Berlin!
This channel takes moments from Patrick Rothfuss's (The beard man and autor of The Name Of The Wind) stream and post them here. Pat is possibly not aware of this content being on RU-vid and probably never going to see our comments, which is sad.
What are your thoughts on the stories inside stories? I'm pretty sure in the first boon there was a point where we got three stories deep XD. Like Kvothe was talking about a point in his life where he remembered back to a point of his life where he was told a story.
just "found " you.. half way through the second book and loving it :) love these vids but where can we see the full length ones? a bit of a #mancrush (PS: dont leave it too long for the third one I'm in the flow)
I don't know if that's what you're looking for but: in this channel you'll find a lot of this kind of stuff, but also, if you search on youtube like "Patrick Rothfuss streams/interviews/PAX..." you'll find a lot other stuff too.
I'm not a writer, but a passionate reader. I believe you can make supporting characters feel more omnipresent by affecting the protagonist in a certain way and feeling this affection throughout the story. One example from Pat's Books would be Kvothe killing the wrong Edema Ruh after leaving Ademre, doing somthing that Vashet or Shehyn propapably would dissaprove with. I thought:" What would Vashet think if she would see Kvothe now doing those horrible things". So she and the other Adem felt present without being mentioned. You maybe also thought of his parents, as the secret rules and signs of the Edema where mentioned. Or of the story he told Simmon and Wilem about choosing water over wine. You need to make it subtile yes and the wine story was on the border of being to obviously intended to to cause a flashback, but this kind of writing is what is setting a good story apart from a genius story, at least in my opinion.
Im sorry that anyone was bored with your books. Its weird because when you skipped over things, because "its already well documented" or whatnot in I was saddened. I wanted to know about the trial and ship voyage ext... you darn tease.
I like to write as a hobby and it makes me happy doing it, but sometimes family members make snide comments like that is a waste of time unless you get it published otherwise your a bum not working. I have a job but only a few hours a weeks and I also care for two kids 11 and 13 years old. I really enjoy writing to express my creative and imaginative side of who I am, but each of those snide comments is like a dagger 🗡to my side and confidence. In the end I just don’t talk about my hobby and so I hide away my passion about books and writing as to not provide those likely to have a go at me about being a failure. I also get the comments why don’t you buy a computer and type up your stories. I just prefer handwriting them for some reason and they even have a go at me for that and say you will never go anywhere if you don’t type it up and get an agent, editor and publisher, but they don’t see I am happy just doing my hobby. I just like to hand write stories. I don’t tell them to stop doing or enjoying their hobbies if they don’t go professional like breeding dogs, baking, gardening or tinkering around the shed or garden. Your words provided great comfort and made a lot of sense in regards to hobby writers predicaments. I guess going pro is a choice and not all want to go down that path if it ruins their enjoyment of a hobby. I worked in a bookstore once and learned a valuable lesson one can love books and enjoy talking about them, but in long doses of time explaining them to others and attempting to sell them to customers it can ruin your love of books. You can get jaded very fast. I go to one of my favourite sayings now ‘too much of a good thing can end up being a bad thing’. Just think 🤔 on that a bit.
I also liked how you talked about BREVITY briefly lol. My old University lecturer now deceased tragically and sadly :( once just wrote on a paper I did a single word BREVITY! I got a high distinction but was over word count by a fair bit well I admit it a lot. He was kind to me that day and I never forget it, so I learned a valuable lesson often in life we think more is better but not always. Quality of substance and thought is way better than quantity full of rambling and something without structure. From one word BREVITY written on the bottom of my paper I learnt my most important life lesson get to the point fast and then get out!
If you wanna be a pro writer then understand that's 10 years away. Your goal for every chapter or book that you write is to write better the next time. Meaning the end goal for having written a book is you becoming a better writer not to have that book make money. Embarrassment is the cost of entry. You gotta just keep practicing. You'll notice within months your quality is increasing that will hopefully motivate you to continue honing your craft. Then in 10 or 20 years you would be a much more refined writer that will get 2nd looks by publishers.
Yeah i dont think he will release it at this point. Imagine someone who read the first book in 2007. They have been waiting almost 14 years for this book now, so no point in waiting.
Layne Doe why are y’all so rude?? He’s not obligated to write a book at exactly the speed you want him to, he’s making art and his process takes time, that’s something you should accept instead of taking it out on him and others.
Why did you bother publishing the first two books? You choose to put it in the public space and now are pissed at people because we want to know how it ends. Sure you could just write for yourself, print out a single copy and stick it own your own shelf. Done! Your problem is of your own making. You choose to publish the first two books and the companion book, implying you would finish the story. We are not being unreasonable expecting you to finish the third book in a reasonable time period. My (unsolicited) advice pick a draft of your book, the one you least hate, send it to a copy editor, then publish that, and be done with it.
That is such a bullshit argument for not finishing the third book. I work in construction, if the home owner kept asking me when I was gonna finish his home I wouldn't be like "Well now you're making me not wanna do it" halfway into the project.
