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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 27, 2009, 10:47:04 AM »Quote
Ages, huh? His first novel was published 6 years ago. Now, while I have become a huge BWS fan, and have read all his books, I find myself wanting more information about the worlds he creates. I understand why he was writing small, but I am looking forward to his first Epic, and writing Wot will no doubt only make him better.
6 years is a long time to say i can't really say i've been reading "grown up" novels for more than 10 years. And nooooo, please Brandon, don't learn from Jordan too much and start writing "Epic" books ("Epic" from the above comment i'm reading as long, slow, overly descriptive and trying to be clever reads with plot used as a tool to peice the description together rather than the focus of the book). Your books are ace and shouldn't change a bit.
Also, you should write more on Warbreaker universe, magic from colours is ace.
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You honestly think RJ and Tor couldn't have made as much, if not more, money by closing this series and writing outriggers?
Yes - After reading WoT the first time i wouldn't have bought any more of Jordans books on other series/same world. If you say "I'm going to write a 10 book series" then do it in 10 books. Not wait until 1000's have bought 7-8 of them and then think "Oh, i'm getting a good amount of cash from this, i'll keep going". RJ could have easily fit the plot that has/will happened in 10 books, heck, he could have done it in 6-7 really juicy fantastic books instead of drawing it ever outward.
As Brandon has shown by him writing just one of the books and it being action packed and containing as much plot as the last 5 books combined.