Patrick Rothfuss's Blog, page 72

Lately, I've been thinking about fanfic.
This is new to me. Up until this this point in my life, I've spent more time thinking about how turtles have sex than about fan fiction.
Don't get me wrong. I don't have anything against fan fiction. It's just….
It's like this. Let's say you came up to me and said, [...:]

As many of you know, a couple of days ago I decided to take a bit of a road trip down to Virginia. And, because I am an accommodating Midwesterner, I thought I might do a reading or two on my way down. So some folks could get their books signed, if they wanted.
When I [...:]

…or something. Is that too obscure a reference these days? Should I have gone with the cliche but easily recognizable "there can be only one?"
What I'm talking about is the battle royal going on over at Suvudu. They've taken a bunch of our favorite fictional characters and paired them up in head to head fights. [...:]

Dear Pat,
I won't be able to make any of your readings over the next two weeks, but I was wondering. How do you get ready for something like that? I've done a little public speaking in the past, and it terrifies me. I can't help but think that it must be a million times worse [...:]

So Kvothe is going up against Aslan right now in round two of the fantasy cage match on Suvudu. What's surprising is that right now the votes are pretty much dead even. Half for Kvothe, half for the big cat himself.
I didn't write up a little blurb for the last fight. But I've been [...:]

… jiggedy jig.
After about two solid weeks on the road, I'm back at home.
I really didn't plan on doing so many signings on this trip. But I seem to have a knack for starting things that I think will be small and having them spiral rapidly out of control.
Still, now I know I can do [...:]

As many of you know, Kvothe is one of the final four remaining fighters in Suvudu's fantasy cage match. After beating Aslan and Dumbledore, he's come head-to-head with Jaime Lannister from Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books.
Right now I'm losing. And while that stings a little, it doesn't sting nearly as much as what [...:]

Any of you who have been to my book signings know I tend to move back and forth between reading my stuff and doing Q&A.
I do this partly to break up the potential monotony of an hour of straight reading, and partly because I really like to answer questions. Any sort of question, really. That's [...:]

Any of you who have been to my book signings know I tend to move back and forth between reading my stuff and doing Q&A.

I do this partly to break up the potential monotony of an hour of straight reading, and partly because I really like to answer questions. Any sort of question, really. That's part of the reason I became a teacher, I think. And it probably factored into my decision to keep writing my College Survival Guide for about 10 years.

I even, believe it or not, wrote a sex advice column...

As many of you know, Kvothe is one of the final four remaining fighters in Suvudu's fantasy cage match. After beating Aslan and Dumbledore, he's come head-to-head with Jaime Lannister from Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books.

Right now I'm losing. And while that stings a little, it doesn't sting nearly as much as what Sarah said to me last night.

"Are you still losing to Jaime Lannister?" she asked.

"Yeah," I said. "By a couple percentage points."

"Well, Jaime's a pretty awesome character," she s...