Dammit, I lost my bet.
Mar. 30th, 2009 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerI've been wagering since about 1998 that the Wheel of Time would end up being thirteen books long. Looks like I'm wrong.
Official Tor press release.
Brandon Sanderson, who's finishing the series, on how he's ended up doing four times as much work as he signed on for.
I never believed, from the moment Jordan announced the series would end at twelve, that it could wrap up that fast, and I was right about that. But my money was on thirteen, and even that turns out to have been optimistic. (There's something hilarious about the line in the press release, that "somehow it seems fitting that what began as a trilogy will also end as one." Trilogy, my foot.)
At some point, I will write a lengthy post or two about my history with this series. Suffice to say that I do intend to read the end, and in fact I will almost certainly re-read the series one final time on my way to that end. I have that much investment left in it, though not much more.
But man, I do NOT envy Sanderson, who almost certainly got paid a flat fee for finishing the series, and is now having to crank out three books instead of one, all of them longer than the original estimate. While also keeping up with his own books. The man is insane.
Official Tor press release.
Brandon Sanderson, who's finishing the series, on how he's ended up doing four times as much work as he signed on for.
I never believed, from the moment Jordan announced the series would end at twelve, that it could wrap up that fast, and I was right about that. But my money was on thirteen, and even that turns out to have been optimistic. (There's something hilarious about the line in the press release, that "somehow it seems fitting that what began as a trilogy will also end as one." Trilogy, my foot.)
At some point, I will write a lengthy post or two about my history with this series. Suffice to say that I do intend to read the end, and in fact I will almost certainly re-read the series one final time on my way to that end. I have that much investment left in it, though not much more.
But man, I do NOT envy Sanderson, who almost certainly got paid a flat fee for finishing the series, and is now having to crank out three books instead of one, all of them longer than the original estimate. While also keeping up with his own books. The man is insane.
