It's no closer to Anderson than it is to Jordan, IMO.
The pace etc. is pretty much Jordan's. The prose is different, but I don't see the similarity to Anderson. Not in the pace, not in the descriptions, not in the dialogue.
Anderson would have written this in about 4000 words but it would have turned out this way:
Chapter 1: Rand and Min speak.
Chapter 2: Egwene sneezes. She has a cold, no matter the canon say AS don't get sick, Anderson decides that Accepted can.
Chapter 3: Nynaeve and Cadsuane decide what they are gonna tell Rand
Chapter 4: Egwene wonders if she should see a Yellow for her cold
Chapter 5: Rand watches the Saldaeans and Asha'man and repeats to himself half that went on with Min.
Chapter 6: Egwene still wonders if she should see a Yellow for her cold, and repeats the same pros and cons from chapter 4, using different wording.
Chapter 7: Aviendha and Rhuarc decide what they are gonna tell Rand
Chapter 8: Min's turn repeats to herself what went on with Rand, because that was six pages ago since the last repeat and readers will get all lost otherwise.
Chapter 8 (bis, because Anderson has mixed up his little cards he uses for plotting, which consists of throwing them in the air and deciding in which order he will tell the story by the way they have fallen - he has 8 novels out each year, he needs trick like this): Egwene go sees a Yellow. That Yellow is very special and uses herbs, because in chapter 639, Sanderson wants her to poison Egwene, so he needs a Yellow who knows herbs. It doesn't make sense, but he fears if he doesn't hammer in some way the fact the Yellow knows herbal poisons the reader will get lost.
Chapter 9: Cadsuane and Nyaneve come and repeat to Rand all the same stuff they had decided beforehand. One tiny bit of new information is given.
Chapter 10: Egwene regrets to have been cured, because the garbage smell. She sweats, because Anderson has AGAIN forgotten to read the notes and keep track of the canon, and by this time Harriet only pretends to edit, she's so bored she sleeps over the manuscript most of the time. Anderson take advantage of this to have a spectacular transformation scene that will make Aran'gar channel both saidin and saidar, because it's too cool. By mid-book Aran'gar is the main villain, and has a big army of channelers who can use both saidin and saidar at once.
Chapter 11: the dog at the tape before the typist could finish the transcript, so he's gonna re use chapter 10 and rework it a bit so it's now Mesaana who has a cold. That provides one more occasion to repeat the Yellow knows herbal poisons. the climax with the poisonning is just 628 chapters away after all, the reader needs to be properly prepared. God forbids he doesn't see it coming!
Chapter 12: Rand has his academies begin to work on a superweapon. It will be giant robots in which he will transfer the conscience of LTT. He's not put that in a book for two years (he thinks, hard to keep track at 8 books a year), so it's time to re use it.
- Tom Doherty calls (wakes up) Harriet and asks her how the heck she thinks they're gonna pay to print 639 chapter icons.
- "Yes Tom, but you said Anderson was the best.
"Anderson?!? I said Sanderson! What have you done. Please tell me he's not suggested a prequel trilogy about how Faile and Berelain have met 20 years before."
- "Faile is sixteen!"
- "Not for long, he'll make her 35 soon enough!"
The pace etc. is pretty much Jordan's. The prose is different, but I don't see the similarity to Anderson. Not in the pace, not in the descriptions, not in the dialogue.
Anderson would have written this in about 4000 words but it would have turned out this way:
Chapter 1: Rand and Min speak.
Chapter 2: Egwene sneezes. She has a cold, no matter the canon say AS don't get sick, Anderson decides that Accepted can.
Chapter 3: Nynaeve and Cadsuane decide what they are gonna tell Rand
Chapter 4: Egwene wonders if she should see a Yellow for her cold
Chapter 5: Rand watches the Saldaeans and Asha'man and repeats to himself half that went on with Min.
Chapter 6: Egwene still wonders if she should see a Yellow for her cold, and repeats the same pros and cons from chapter 4, using different wording.
Chapter 7: Aviendha and Rhuarc decide what they are gonna tell Rand
Chapter 8: Min's turn repeats to herself what went on with Rand, because that was six pages ago since the last repeat and readers will get all lost otherwise.
Chapter 8 (bis, because Anderson has mixed up his little cards he uses for plotting, which consists of throwing them in the air and deciding in which order he will tell the story by the way they have fallen - he has 8 novels out each year, he needs trick like this): Egwene go sees a Yellow. That Yellow is very special and uses herbs, because in chapter 639, Sanderson wants her to poison Egwene, so he needs a Yellow who knows herbs. It doesn't make sense, but he fears if he doesn't hammer in some way the fact the Yellow knows herbal poisons the reader will get lost.
Chapter 9: Cadsuane and Nyaneve come and repeat to Rand all the same stuff they had decided beforehand. One tiny bit of new information is given.
Chapter 10: Egwene regrets to have been cured, because the garbage smell. She sweats, because Anderson has AGAIN forgotten to read the notes and keep track of the canon, and by this time Harriet only pretends to edit, she's so bored she sleeps over the manuscript most of the time. Anderson take advantage of this to have a spectacular transformation scene that will make Aran'gar channel both saidin and saidar, because it's too cool. By mid-book Aran'gar is the main villain, and has a big army of channelers who can use both saidin and saidar at once.
Chapter 11: the dog at the tape before the typist could finish the transcript, so he's gonna re use chapter 10 and rework it a bit so it's now Mesaana who has a cold. That provides one more occasion to repeat the Yellow knows herbal poisons. the climax with the poisonning is just 628 chapters away after all, the reader needs to be properly prepared. God forbids he doesn't see it coming!
Chapter 12: Rand has his academies begin to work on a superweapon. It will be giant robots in which he will transfer the conscience of LTT. He's not put that in a book for two years (he thinks, hard to keep track at 8 books a year), so it's time to re use it.
- Tom Doherty calls (wakes up) Harriet and asks her how the heck she thinks they're gonna pay to print 639 chapter icons.
- "Yes Tom, but you said Anderson was the best.
"Anderson?!? I said Sanderson! What have you done. Please tell me he's not suggested a prequel trilogy about how Faile and Berelain have met 20 years before."
- "Faile is sixteen!"
- "Not for long, he'll make her 35 soon enough!"
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This is not RJ's writing. (No Spoilers)
05/09/2009 03:46:26 AM
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How long is it? I kinda wanna read it now, but I'm at work, so I'm not sure if I have time. *NM*
05/09/2009 03:55:02 AM
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Bah, so am I. 4.5 pages on Microsoft Word. Single space, no margin, Arial font, size 9.
05/09/2009 04:02:13 AM
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Yeah, it was actually a fairly quick read..no trouble at all reading it at work. *NM*
05/09/2009 05:00:17 AM
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It isn't supposed to be.
05/09/2009 04:08:46 AM
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Re: This is not RJ's writing. (No Spoilers)
05/09/2009 04:13:48 AM
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Absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:18:51 AM
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Re: Absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:25:16 AM
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That's what I meant by absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:31:26 AM
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Could it be rough draft that Sanderson kept, and Jordan never polished? *NM*
05/09/2009 05:14:59 AM
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I doubt it
05/09/2009 05:17:09 AM
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Yeah, I just finished reading it....and it was pretty obvious that it wasn't RJ
05/09/2009 04:55:30 AM
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Re: Yeah, I just finished reading it....and it was pretty obvious that it wasn't RJ
05/09/2009 07:41:51 AM
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Becareful of what you wish for
05/09/2009 08:29:52 AM
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Agree fully. Art and paiting have rarely even been mentioned! It feels like a fan's writing...
05/09/2009 09:59:15 AM
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Are you pre-ordering the book?
05/09/2009 10:48:44 AM
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No. It was never meant to be, it never could be and Sanderson never pretended otherwise.
05/09/2009 07:40:37 PM
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It sounds more like Anderson than Jordan
05/09/2009 11:11:58 PM
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Re: It sounds more like Anderson than Jordan
06/09/2009 12:19:11 AM
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It isn't but I thought BS said he wasn't trying to be exactly like RJ
08/09/2009 08:12:24 PM
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