Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series
Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series
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Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series
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Maybe had it not been bad fan fiction instead of just, you know, following the author's story, it would have worked out.
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The author's story was also pretty terrible. I re-read it again last year, and man does it drag. You could most likely cut it in half and make a better series.
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You could potentially cut a lot, yeah. But this wasn't cutting, this was just plain rewriting.
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Considering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.
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She was a professional editor and worked on his books before they started dating. She's also been the editor for several other classic and famous series'. So unless you're implying that her feminity is cause for lesser quality, I fail to see the relevance.
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Wasn't implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don't believe she did that in editing her husband's books.
The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband's works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.
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