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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If you're implying that I never learned how to do outlines in school, then your batting average just went down.  I understand it perfectly well (I even understand that Sanderson is probably one of the most notorious planners/architects out there). I just don't see the point of planning a story that takes 10+ books and/or 2+ decades to fully tell. I find it ridiculous and presumptuous, in fact. Whether it be Sanderson, Jordan, Martin or whoever.
I love fantasy--I really do--but I sometimes wish The Series was the exception rather than the rule that governed it. I'd get to read more of it that way. |
If you can get the publisher to give you the contract? Oh, yeah, I can see the reason. $$$. Remember what Dr. Johnson said about writing -- "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."