/lit/ - Literature

What is everyone writing/working on?

I'm doing an abridgement of Wheel of Time. Just wrapped up combining books 09-11 last weekend.

I am now starting an overview of the Sanderson books. They will be quite a different experience I think. Will need more restructuring/additive work rather than just trimming off fluff.

Wheel of Time abridgement is going great. I wrapped up combining books 09-11 last weekend. It ended up being 390k words (which is not atypical for a WoT book, though it sounds long). Lots of exciting stuff happening now that pacing is faster. I sent to my beta reader, will get feedback this weekend...so, pretty excited for that.

I've now finished the section of WoT I started the project for (books 07-10). And now I'm starting my overview of the Sanderson books. The more I look at them, the more confident I am that I can pull books 12-14 into one book. Though I'm going to have quite a different experience with the Sanderson books I think: A lot of bad Mat/Perrin to delete or rearrange. A lot of timeline issues to fix. Dialogue styles and anachronisms, etc.

I'm afraid I'll have to be much more additive now, so it may take me longer to do these books but hopefully will be finished by November. At which point I'll do a last overview of the entire series to ensure that no important details or foreshadowing was dropped.