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Jim's stand on fic?
Yeratel:
I beleive the relative would have to have inherited the author's copyrights in order to work on their existing characters.
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: neurovore on January 19, 2009, 04:52:28 PM ---Jordan had the whole series plan down before he started writing; the middle grew in the telling, but as I understand it there was never any doubt about there the end would be. So "holding pattern while he figured out where he was going" is not the failure mode there.
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If he had the plan down, then why the 3 or 4 books of nothing happening and pointless meandering?
Sorry, but it IS a failure....he trailed off into minutae in the middle of his story...that is a story telling 'DON'T'.
If he couldn't figure out where he was going, then in my opinion, he needed to sit down and work that out, not just write more books with the idea that eventually he'd work it out.
Knowing the end is important, but just as important, or possibly more, is HOW you get there.
We know Dresden is going to survive, in The Dresden Files books, we KNOW that ending. It's what he does to solve the problem and how he does it that suckers us in!
Infamous as Elle!:
Ha ha! So it becomes kind of like what some said about the second Matrix movie? That it could have been easily integrated into the last movie, still been viable and not been such a waste of money or time with very little plot?
Shecky:
But... but... you would've deprived moviegoers of all that CGI goodiness?!? :D
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Elle de Valois on January 19, 2009, 10:00:15 PM ---Ha ha! So it becomes kind of like what some said about the second Matrix movie? That it could have been easily integrated into the last movie, still been viable and not been such a waste of money or time with very little plot?
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Nah, I liked the 2nd Matrix movie....I just think they shot themselves in the foot with their ending of the first one.
Jordans books dragged...plot points didn't move, characters stagnated, a whole host of new minor characters were introduced....and some of them started out as more powerful than a bunch of the mains, who were already far more powerful than the norm.
Basically, it seemed like he'd lost the thread of his story and it was flailing everywhich way, like a firehose that's turned on with no one holding it.
Some water hit the fire, but it wasn't a concentrated stream.
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