End as you began
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swan_towerAhahahaha.
When I set out to do my Wheel of Time re-read and analysis, I based my schedule on the projected release date of the final book. But I have enough experience with this series that I knew better than to assume it would come out as planned in November 2011, so I deliberately aimed to overshoot that date.
Well, I didn't overshoot by enough. As Sanderson says in the above post, the new date for A Memory of Light is January 2013. We were doing so well, right up until the end . . . but of course this series has to end with a massive delay. Because that's how it goes.
This means I need to think about how I want to handle my posts for The Gathering Storm (which I've been meaning to do for, well, months now) and Towers of Midnight. I don't want to lose every bit of momentum I had with this blog series, but I also don't want to be left waiting for nine months or more before the final book. (However fitting that might be.) If I'd known there would be this large of a delay, I would have started stretching things out last summer -- but too late for that now.
What's likely is that I will do two posts for TGS, one that's pure reader-reaction (what I think of various plot developments), and one that's analysis. Then I'll do the same for ToM, in the latter half of this year. But I'm open to other suggestions, too: should I post about "The Strike at Shayol Ghul"? Or the companion book? How should I kill time until this thing is finally done?
When I set out to do my Wheel of Time re-read and analysis, I based my schedule on the projected release date of the final book. But I have enough experience with this series that I knew better than to assume it would come out as planned in November 2011, so I deliberately aimed to overshoot that date.
Well, I didn't overshoot by enough. As Sanderson says in the above post, the new date for A Memory of Light is January 2013. We were doing so well, right up until the end . . . but of course this series has to end with a massive delay. Because that's how it goes.
This means I need to think about how I want to handle my posts for The Gathering Storm (which I've been meaning to do for, well, months now) and Towers of Midnight. I don't want to lose every bit of momentum I had with this blog series, but I also don't want to be left waiting for nine months or more before the final book. (However fitting that might be.) If I'd known there would be this large of a delay, I would have started stretching things out last summer -- but too late for that now.
What's likely is that I will do two posts for TGS, one that's pure reader-reaction (what I think of various plot developments), and one that's analysis. Then I'll do the same for ToM, in the latter half of this year. But I'm open to other suggestions, too: should I post about "The Strike at Shayol Ghul"? Or the companion book? How should I kill time until this thing is finally done?
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Date: 2012-02-17 11:15 pm (UTC)If you're really desperate, I'm happy to do a guest post from a geographer's point of view - the stories I can find in the maps without knowing the books at all, and what I can learn about the worldbuilding from them.
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Date: 2012-02-17 11:46 pm (UTC)I wonder if I still have it back at my parents' house?
And I may indeed take you up on the guest-post thing. It seems to me like the best course of action would be to do side posts now -- aside from the companion book, I just remembered I've been meaning to do one on how Jordan uses prophecy -- so as to get all the posts on the Sanderson books a bit closer together.