{"id":1914,"date":"2009-08-17T06:54:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-18T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T07:42:14","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1914\/","title":{"rendered":"The wail of the Wheel of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the decision to split &#8220;A Memory of Light&#8221; in three different books in order to milk the franchise didn&#8217;t reveal a particular intention, this may even to the loudest and dumbest apologists.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Sanderson has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonmount.com\/News\/?p=615\">another piece<\/a> where he explains he WILL WRITE the outriggers (<a href=\"http:\/\/thewertzone.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/winds-of-duneor-should-that-be-hot-air.html\">Dune-like<\/a>) as long Tom covers him with money while he unloads all responsibilities on Harriet.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning is quite interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It would be very hard to let someone else write it. Almost as hard as it would be to let go of another series.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This being Sanderson expressing his own feelings, and one wonders how JORDAN would feel about Sanderson writing his stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: he already stabbed Mr Jordan once, and he&#8217;s the most fitting to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>What is irritating is the complete lack of sincerity and the continuous attempts to justify what he does without taking ANY responsibility for his choices. It&#8217;s Tom that wants the books, it&#8217;s Harriet that will decide if they will be made. He&#8217;s just the passive writer with no choice but to save the day.<\/p>\n<p>The outriggers being another three books, the prequels another two. He&#8217;s set for a great career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the decision to split &#8220;A Memory of Light&#8221; in three different books in order to milk the franchise didn&#8217;t reveal a particular intention, this may even to the loudest and dumbest apologists. Brandon Sanderson has written another piece where he explains he WILL WRITE the outriggers (Dune-like) as long Tom covers him with money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,37],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-wheel_of_time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}