M1Astray posted...
We got Mistborn era 2 because he had writers block in Stormlight IIRC. This isn't coming at the expense of his main stories, and isn't likely to effect the timeline we get new stuff either due to how he keeps motivated because he does side stuff. It's a extra thing.
Mistborn was always meant to be a generation spanning epic. He's currently writing Era 3, which was meant to be Era 2. Alloy of Law
was
a book he wrote during writer's block for Stormlight, but it was supposed to be a one-off interquel that would help bridge the time gap between Era 1 and Era 2. But then he did as he does and kept fucking writing. Until Wax and Wayne had enough books to become Era 2.
For the record he also intended an Era 3...ehich I guess is Era 4 now, that takes place during the space age. However he's also mentioned he might pull another wax and wayne and do a cyberpunk series in between eras 3 and 4...so. a new Era 4 where the space age becomes Era 5.
And he thinks it'd be neat if doing all this let him write precisely 16 Mistborn books.