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No. Once again, accelerating the pace is not the same as finishing in one more book. Tom Send a noteboard - 14/03/2011 03:02:46 PM
You can try to justify why Jordan did what he did all you like, but it's just your opinion. Ultimately, since history doesn't know the conditional mood, as they say, we can't even satisfactorily determine how many books it would have been.

The thing that I find amusing is that you go into extended analyses of plot lines as though somehow that was the problem, and Jordan was trying but failing to solve it.

Jordan had a good idea. He let it get away from him and started to drag things out because it was profitable. If he were just interested in tying things together he could have cut out a lot of needless dress explanations, horse names, and side stories that he intentionally added in books 7-10.

All of your explanations are simply guesses and fictional reconstructions of what Jordan might have wanted to do. You can't prove it, not remotely.

I would also remind you how TOR was trying to reissue the first six Wheel of Time books as two books each, with "new material". If that had made money you would have seen all six of the first books broken up. It was all about $$$, nothing more. That, and getting people used to the idea that big books like 1-6 were not going to appear in the future.

As for the TOR point, I'm just going by what Brandon Sanderson had written about the situation.

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