No worries. We’re all geeks for someone. When I’m around Neil Gaiman, I feel the same hand-flapping urge you mentioned. I spend a lot of my brain power suppressing it.

I don’t really have any. That’s the joy of being an obsessive revisor: few regrets.

I would love to help Joel out. And since we already know each other, and I’ve let him know that I love MST3K with a powerful love, we *might* be talking about something along the lines of what you mention even now...

I only read the first two books, and that was *ages* ago. Liked them well enough, from what little I remember.

What it means to be human. The nature of reality. How stories influence the world. Mythology. Folklore. Physics. Beauty. Truth.

Both. Very both.

It was more of an opium addicted dragon, but I take your point.

The first book was mostly about Kvothe’s early life. His roots in the troupe and in the University. It was about him being clever and knowing things. And it was about him losing a home and trying to make a new home for himself after his world fell apart.

The…

Anything Sanderson does is very clever and well thought out.

Oh man. This is a completely fair question. But it’s just so big. So... so big. This is the sort of thing I would talk about for weeks if I was teaching I writing class. There’s no way I can answer it here.

Most of the things I do, I do on purpose.

Carefully.

This.

The big difference is that it’s a collaborative project. What’s more, not only am I not working alone, but I’m not really in charge. In any way. I’m not in charge of the overall shape of the story, neither am I in control of the IP in which the story is being written. It’s delightfully freeing and profoundly…

People talking about what has happened to them is the most natural form of storytelling. I guarantee that you’ve done it 10 times already today.

Wow. Lot of questions.

Whoo boy. This is a good question. I like the way you think.

P.S. If any of y’all are curious about the fundraiser and would prefer to read the details about what’s going on in my blog, here’s a link to that instead.

I didn’t know they spoke French in Brasil...

I have not had a typical day since somewhere back in July of 2009.

I actually had a remarkably civilized discussion on this subject on Reddit a year ago, and I went into some detail on the subject. Too much to re-type here....