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Not the Jonathan Barnes who wrote extensively about the Roman Empire, that’s a different dude.

The JB in question wrote The Somnambulist, which deals with a stage magician and his silent, (possibly) semi-human, milk guzzling assistant, as they take on a strange organization, assisted by a man who exists backwards in time, and two psychopathic killers dressed as British Schoolboys.

The Domino Men concerns Henry Lamb and his induction into a secret society. Along the way he encounters British royalty, a new dangerous street drug, hidden identities, an extremely sweaty file clerk, and two psychopathic killers dressed as British Schoolboys.

Lastly, there’s Cannonbridge. Matthew Cannonbridge was a mysterious historical character who appeared at several different highly notable literary events of the past. He always seems to be the same age, and always influenced events. A professor in the modern day is the only person who believes he never actually existed. Sadly, there are no psychopathic killers dressed as British Schoolboys in this one.

That seems to be it for the novels he’s written. Near as I can tell, after those, he signed on with Big Finish and wrote a bunch of Doctor Who audio adventures, which is sad because I really enjoyed his stuff.

Anyone else read them, and if so, what did you think?

When Rand is walking back through the history the Aiel, he sees a soldier with a helmet like a giant insect head.

Clearly this is a reference to the Seanchan helmet, but this takes place two thousand years before Artur Hawkwing sent his armies across the Aryth.

Does this have any significance or is there a reason why it’s there?

I’ve read all the books multiple times so feel free to spoiler-mark answers if it comes up in the future.

Mods- can I get the flair changed to All Print?

I host a podcast wherein I take three newbies through the series and we just last week reached the point where the EF5 split up and go their separate ways from the Stone of Tear.

When Perrin leaves, which is the same time as Nynaeve and Elayne board the Waverider, there is an earthquake that shakes everything.

In all my rereads, I thought it was either Perrin tearing himself away from the Ta’veren pull of Rand, or Rand receiving Elayne’s second letter and having an adverse reaction to it (Accidentally drawing The Power and putting it into the ground like he did at the start of The Dragon Reborn which is what allowed him to escape undetected).

That was, until one of my newbies said she thought it was because of Rand thrusting Callandor into the Heart to hold their hearts, so I went back and reread that section (which I’ve read like four or five times before including the previous week for this episode), and sure enough, he draws Power through Callandor, thrusts it into the ground, and the earthquake happens.

So, yeah. Listen to the newbies (not all the time (“The fade at Four Kings was Bayle Domon in disguise to fake Thom’s death so he and Thom could go down to Illian and compete in the Great Hunt for the Horn bardic competition” is a real thing one of them said once)), because sometimes they’ll teach you.

According to https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-is-your-daily-wordcount-time-goal/ he writes 2000 words a day.

According to https://www.tameri.com/format/word-counts/ a normal 2 hour movie script is 125 words/minute and one page/minute. 120x125‎ = 15,000

Bump it up to a three hour movie:
180x125‎ = 22,500

Give it some extra space for description, setting, action, whatever, 27,500

27,500 words/(2000words/day)‎ = 13.75 days

Call it two weeks.

BrandoSando has been working on the screenplay since Feb 3. (https://youtu.be/VBQmStfWDVE)

That’s 100 days (to May 14, anyway)

100 days x 2000 words/day= 200,000 words.

Let’s multiply that by 5/7 to account for any days off (he takes one day off for admin stuff as mentioned in the first link, and I’ll give him another day off to get a lower bound)= 142,857

We’ll do that again, just to account for revision and travel and miscellany= 102,040

The Mistborn Screenplay bar is currently at 72%

27,500x0.72‎ = 19,800

19,800 words.

That leaves more than 80,000 words unaccounted for.

That’s almost one whole secret project.

Frugal Wizard 2: Frugal Wizarder incoming!

Somebody please correct my math or analysis if you’re smarter than I am (a VERY possible circumstance).

According to https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-is-your-daily-wordcount-time-goal/ he writes 2000 words a day.

According to https://www.tameri.com/format/word-counts/ a normal 2 hour movie script is 125 words/minute and one page/minute. 120x125‎ = 15,000

Bump it up to a three hour movie:
180x125‎ = 22,500

Give it some extra space for description, setting, action, whatever, 27,500

27,500 words/(2000words/day)‎ = 13.75 days

Call it two weeks.

BrandoSando has been working on the screenplay since Feb 3. (https://youtu.be/VBQmStfWDVE)

That’s 100 days (to May 14, anyway)

100 days x 2000 words/day= 200,000 words.

Let’s multiply that by 5/7 to account for any days off (he takes one day off for admin stuff as mentioned in the first link, and I’ll give him another day off to get a lower bound)= 142,857

We’ll do that again, just to account for revision and travel and miscellany= 102,040

The Mistborn Screenplay bar is currently at 72%

27,500x0.72‎ = 19,800

19,800 words.

That leaves more than 80,000 words unaccounted for.

Just something I thought was interesting.

As I said, please correct any mistakes I may have made. I’m sure there is something I left unaccounted for.