Story 33 Notes

Today's story is more about characterization than plot, about the old man's life and how it has affected his choices in the present moment. I've been doing a lot of reading recently and come to the conclusion that character-driven plots are a great deal more fun that those merely moved along by set pieces, but I've found that writing great characters is a hell of a lot more difficult than writing great scenes.

On that note, I've finished the second book of the Mistborn trilogy and while I'm still impressed with Sanderson's characters, I thought the book itself was fairly weak. In some respects, I felt that the character development traced the same path as in the first volume, and at the same time found myself skipping over great action set pieces because I was a touch bored with the whole story.

I'm going to keep reading - I'm hoping this is a Lord of the Rings "Two Towers" type of situation, and I have great faith that Sanderson will pull it all together in the third book.

- D