You don't necessarily have to plan it

I always go in on November 1st with zero plan whatsoever and just see what comes out

The goal is 50,000 words

22,222 posts

good lord, that's more than double what I've written in WORDS in this silly competition so far

awh shucks I don't have 22,222 posts anymore

And now I'm reading Oathbringer, which was sent to my parents two weeks early...

I don't know the full scope yet, but I will have to at least think some things all over again.

That moment when it's casually mentioned that if two kinds of people that use the same type of magic use it differently because they're different kinds of people...

I heard my theory crash through the window when I read that.

Not 10, but 20 types of magic to identify, and contrary to what I thought, I probably can't assume things because some have names similar to chemical processes.

Not to mention that I think the very theory I based everything upon may have been proven incorrect...

Also with a casual mention.

Boom. Gotta start all over again.

And you gotta write the guide that you're starting with all by yourself, rather than being able to rely upon a theory written by someone else.

I'm not good at figuring the basis out myself.

I'm an extrapolator.

The good thing, I suppose, is that the base of "it's related to string theory" will still hold, as that's been confirmed by Brandon.

Now if only my very basic understanding of string theory didn't for the most part come from the Cosmere theory...

Guess I got some heavy Wikipedia reading to do next week.

Ugh.

Truly scientific Wikipedia articles can be very hard to read.

On occasion I even have trouble understanding the chemistry related ones.

Let alone fundamental physics theories.

The level with no pictures because you can't put it in pictures when explaining.