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Hello :)

I'm a new member here on Absolute Write. I've been reading for fun ever since I was about twelve. I went from reading Harry Potter to reading YA in the beginning of high school and then landing on epic fantasy in the end of high school.

Now, pretty much all I read is epic fantasy, though I'm always up to read books of other genres.

Right now I'm eighteen, in my first year of university, and trying to write what I plan to be an 85k novel for the first time. (I'm about 24k into it).

This definitely seems like an awesome place to have discovered. I'm looking forward to reading some great writing on the forum, and also perhaps posting some of mine.

-Hanna
 

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Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone!
@JamesL: Yup, I'm absolutely obsessed with Sanderson's epic fantasy novels, I'm on a mission to read all of them, heh.
 

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Welcome, wotcherH. I'm new, too. My husband and I are working on an epic fantasy. We hope to finish and publish it sometime before we die. I hope you and I both find (and give!) help as members of this site.

That Sanderson fellow: I gave him a try and didn't care for his work. I know he's popular. I wonder if it's a generational thing?
 

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@NomdePlume Hi! That's awesome. About Sanderson, I don't think it's a generational thing so much as the fact that some readers will like his stuff, and other's won't. It's as simple as that, I think.

@EllaM Hi Ella! :)
 

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Welcome and have you read anything by Brandon Sanderson? (I am a fan-man-boy ... what can I say?)

I quite liked the way he finished up The Wheel of Time books. It could have been terrible.

The only other book by him that I've read is Steelheart. I liked that too. Didn't love it, but I was really disappointed when I saw the wait for the next book.
 

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I quite liked the way he finished up The Wheel of Time books. It could have been terrible.

The only other book by him that I've read is Steelheart. I liked that too. Didn't love it, but I was really disappointed when I saw the wait for the next book.

I haven't read Steelheart yet. I know two people with completely opposite opinions on it, heh.