Paolini added that “The goal was to do an entire series in one book. I’ve done the multi-book series with over a million published words, and I think you hold the record for the biggest of the big series at the moment—but I wanted to tell a complete story with a beginning middle, and end in one volume. It was a personal challenge, and I thought it was going to save me time instead of writing a series, but it took me nearly ten years to write the darn thing anyways!”
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"BS: I’ve read a lot of your books, and this is by far your best technical writing so far. I’m loving the book. I can see the influences, but it doesn’t feel derivative in any way. It’s its own thing. This is a big departure in a lot of ways for you."
I'm still bobbing around with what I think about the Fractalverse. I like that Paolini is pursuing something he seems excited about, even if his fans would prefer Book V and the reinvigoration of interest hasn't resulted in well-received pieces of work. I think he intends to write more Inheritance stuff and is just slow to produce. He tweets about having a few projects going on right now, and I'm most curious about how potentially being in the writers' room of the Eragon show might improve his writing.
I guess the main thing is WHY he wants an overarching universe and what the different worlds and stories have to offer each other except for lore and Angela. Brandon Sanderson's method seems to be the way to go, and the authors I thought of went the same route. I'd read a lot of Stephen King's works and enjoyed the way he brought some of them together in The Dark Tower, and he has his own fictional settings that he returns to and builds up. I'd read just enough Laini Taylor for a near-ending line suggesting that there was hope for a character from one series if they encountered one from another spawned a yearning in me for it to happen. Maas seems to have been building a universe for a while.
But if Alagaesia and Fractalverse are connected, it doesn't say much to me except maybe the vanished/grey folk wrought different things in different places.
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Paolini added that “The goal was to do an entire series in one book. I’ve done the multi-book series with over a million published words, and I think you hold the record for the biggest of the big series at the moment—but I wanted to tell a complete story with a beginning middle, and end in one volume. It was a personal challenge, and I thought it was going to save me time instead of writing a series, but it took me nearly ten years to write the darn thing anyways!”
and
"BS: I’ve read a lot of your books, and this is by far your best technical writing so far. I’m loving the book. I can see the influences, but it doesn’t feel derivative in any way. It’s its own thing. This is a big departure in a lot of ways for you."
I'm still bobbing around with what I think about the Fractalverse. I like that Paolini is pursuing something he seems excited about, even if his fans would prefer Book V and the reinvigoration of interest hasn't resulted in well-received pieces of work. I think he intends to write more Inheritance stuff and is just slow to produce. He tweets about having a few projects going on right now, and I'm most curious about how potentially being in the writers' room of the Eragon show might improve his writing.
I guess the main thing is WHY he wants an overarching universe and what the different worlds and stories have to offer each other except for lore and Angela. Brandon Sanderson's method seems to be the way to go, and the authors I thought of went the same route. I'd read a lot of Stephen King's works and enjoyed the way he brought some of them together in The Dark Tower, and he has his own fictional settings that he returns to and builds up. I'd read just enough Laini Taylor for a near-ending line suggesting that there was hope for a character from one series if they encountered one from another spawned a yearning in me for it to happen. Maas seems to have been building a universe for a while.
But if Alagaesia and Fractalverse are connected, it doesn't say much to me except maybe the vanished/grey folk wrought different things in different places.