While I loved Mistborn and am excited to see you optioned the film rights already, I think that Warbreaker would translate to film even more easily/successfully. So I guess my question is, do you agree that Warbreaker will translate to film better? Did you discuss this with Hollywood people? Which…
Yes! It was made into a television show by Amazon. Check it out on Amazon Prime.
I have had movie or TV deals for Mistborn, Alcatraz, The Cosmere, Steelheart, Legion, etc. You’ll notice that as of May 2016, nothing has materialized on the screen for you to actually see. That’s the way Hollywood works. They are always SOOO excited about this project, which is the best…
Probably Final Fantasy 10. At that time I was working the graveyard shift at a hotel, and I was doing a lot of writing on my own trying to get published. I would come home every morning at seven a.m. and play for a couple of hours alone in the…
Three things make a fantasy epic work for me. 1) A complex plot with plenty of twists and turns that comes to an explosive climax. 2) An imaginative magic system and setting that feels both real and wondrous at the same time. 3) Deeply personal characters dealing with issues that…
Many reasons. When I was a young man, I discovered fantasy books when I was in something of a dark place in my life. The works of Babara Hambly, Melanie Rawn, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, David Eddings, and Robert Jordan changed my life. Part of why I write is because…
Unlike a lot of writers, I wasn’t a big reader when I was younger. I came to it late, when I was in eighth grade. Until then, none of the books (mostly ones about boys with pet dogs) that people had given me worked. And then I discovered fantasy. From…
Continued from “How did you get interested in being a writer?”) The journey from starting to write to actually getting published was long, frustrating, and difficult. I wrote 13 novels before I sold Elantris, which was my sixth. The big change for me happened when I managed to figure out…
My start as a writer can be traced back to when I was fourteen years old. I was not a very distinguished student so to speak: Bs and Cs in all my classes. I really didn’t have any direction, either; there was nothing I really loved to do. I was…
This post originally appeared on Tor.com. I started writing my first novel when I was fifteen years old. I didn’t have a computer; I had an old, electric typewriter. It would remember your file on a disc, but it was really just a printer with an attached bare-bones word processor….