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In a discussion of Robert Jordan and his work on Baen's Bar, a comment was made that some of the slowness of his later Wheel of Time books was intentionally caused by people at Tor Books. Author David Drake was the source:

"When Jim Rigney's work became a significant part of not only the Tor but the Von Holzbrink bottom line, the plots for individual volumes were decided by very highly placed people in council with the author...

Business was expanded to a complete volume where it might originally have been one of several strands in a volume, and the action in minor theaters (so to speak) was followed when the author might have been willing to elide it..."

>> No.1658840

and?

>> No.1658842

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/333e875935e5383c/ae24a2df406
cdea5

>> No.1658851

>>1658840
and this was long suspected but has been confirmed by a reliable source, author David Drake, at a reliable venue for information, Baen's Bar (bar.baen.com)

Wheel of Time is hackwork. Proven by David Drake

>> No.1658856

>>1658851

>David Drake

>Calling other peoples' writing hack work

Hypocrite much?

>> No.1658857

Holy shit!

This is huge news.

>> No.1658881

Wow, this is too much exposition without any mention of straightening skirts, tugging braids, storking knife hilts, calling men stupid, calling women stupid or mentioning how I must become harder than steel.

>straightens skirts

>> No.1659576

I think it would be cool to have a wheel of time fighting game where randal thor could fight the black man like street fighter

>> No.1659777

Pic related.

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1659780

>EXPOSED
>implying it's even remotely surprising

>> No.1659800

First four books were awesome.

Fifth was where things started to falter.

Sixth was pretty slow but the ending made it worth while.

Can't recall the seventh too much. Asides from the tent part with Padan.

Started the 8th. Didn't really enjoy it and put it down. Now I don't think I can even pick it back up. Also the fact that the next two books are supposed to be worse(I dislike Perrin a lot).

>> No.1659804

I think everybody already knew this.

>> No.1659813

>>1659780

it's like wikileaks, shit we all knew made official so we can't just ignore it anymore

even though we will still

>> No.1659844

A lot of great works of art have been created because the artist needed money to sustain their lifestyle.

Wheel of time is shit. That's its only crime.

>> No.1659856

Balzac was a gambler and a drunkard. He wrote all his stuff to repay his debts when threathened with prison.

Obviously, it's not quite the same caliber of skill.

>> No.1659879

>>1659856

And Pynchon wrote Lot 49 because he needed the cash, that doesn't mean he did a deliberately shit job.