Winter 2021 (January);

This was written as a writing exercise with the internet, as a challenge to tell an entire story in just dialogue. It's a good showing of Sanderon's ability to bandy the spoken (rather than just 'written' word) and to develop characterization only through what people say to themesleves/each other. But. It's definitely missing the magic of Sanderson's prose, which I found myself missing even as he completed the challenge as set out in the rules. ( )

Having someone throw this at me (Trish) and run off, I had to read it.

At first glance, it's very self-conscious and writing conscious and self-referential and for all these things... it's a mess. But it's supposed to be a mess. I can see that.

He fiddled around with it between projects, just playing around!

But for all that, it's still funny and clever and all over the place and weird, so there's that going for it!

BAIT indeed.

(Just between you and me, I think this bait is working on MANY levels. Drawing in poor unsuspecting victims to his writing being only ONE of them.) :) ( )