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+1 LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 16/11/2011 03:37:26 PM

I don't really blame Sanderson. I think he probably would have done a better job had Harriet not rushed into the project. I don't even blame her for this, I understand why she felt as she felt. Ideally, I still believe she should have given Sanderson at least a year (or two, if he asked) to fully immerse himself in the series, and go to not one but a few consecutive rereads before he started working. The other mistake was to work with a (public) deadline, that sparked expectactions that Harriet then feared to disappoint. They should never have started publishing before Sanderson finished writing. They were not Jordan (and even he had problems with the larger picture, and that showed in the late series), and they deprive themselves of what writer and editor normally do, that is stepping back to look at the whole and polish it. They repeated the same mistake Jordan has made in the late series, when he built WH to climax with the Cleansing, without advancing the other storylines to that point first. Though very different in tone (and story), TOM has the very same kind of structural problems as COT, only even more important.



This paragraph here is, to me, what the crux of the issue became. I don't feel as if Sanderson was given enough time, and that he was not put in the position where demanding more time would have been accepted.
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A considered and mature response. Or some crude name-calling - read and find out which! - 17/11/2011 05:37:38 AM 1026 Views
ha ha ha love your final metaphor *NM* - 17/11/2011 03:54:58 PM 411 Views
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Yes, absolutely not. *NM* - 18/11/2011 06:18:32 PM 382 Views
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