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Info about Peace Talks from Reading the WoJ section
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 02, 2019, 08:57:48 PM ---I just want to read Peace Talks, unless Jim speeds up the pace of his writing, Mirror and the wrestling story are at least five and ten years out.. I find it hard to get excited that far out..
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I think it's reasonable to hope for a DF novel every 3ish years, now. He had a real string-o-disaster life for a bit there! Before that, we saw him doing 1/year for a little while. Recent novels have been bigger, so ... 15ish months?
And he's alternating DF/CS.
Add a bit of overhead, and call it 3 years for 2 books (1 each series).
KurtinStGeorge:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 03, 2019, 12:35:08 AM ---I think it's reasonable to hope for a DF novel every 3ish years, now. He had a real string-o-disaster life for a bit there! Before that, we saw him doing 1/year for a little while. Recent novels have been bigger, so ... 15ish months?
And he's alternating DF/CS.
Add a bit of overhead, and call it 3 years for 2 books (1 each series).
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Someone asked Jim at Westercon how he was challenging himself to improve as a writer, because Jim had just stated that with every new novel he tells he tries to challenge himself to improve in at least one area of his writing, because that's how he gets better as a writer. Jim replied that he wants to work on streamlining his writing technique. Essentially he wants to work on telling the stories he wants to tell in fewer words. He said he wants to start doing this with the next Cinder Spires book and carry over any improvements he can make there into future Dresden Files novels too, so they won't have an ever increasing amount of words. So if Jim is able to do that, it should, when he gets the hang of it, shorten his writing time.
Mira:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 03, 2019, 06:52:42 AM ---Someone asked Jim at Westercon how he was challenging himself to improve as a writer, because Jim had just stated that with every new novel he tells he tries to challenge himself to improve in at least one area of his writing, because that's how he gets better as a writer. Jim replied that he wants to work on streamlining his writing technique. Essentially he wants to work on telling the stories he wants to tell in fewer words. He said he wants to start doing this with the next Cinder Spires book and carry over any improvements he can make there into future Dresden Files novels too, so they won't have an ever increasing amount of words. So if Jim is able to do that, it should, when he gets the hang of it, shorten his writing time.
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One can only hope, I want to be alive at the end of the series, not only that but be able to read it!!
Hope he can perfect the technique for all our sakes...
Regenbogen:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 03, 2019, 11:12:06 AM ---One can only hope, I want to be alive at the end of the series, not only that but be able to read it!!
Hope he can perfect the technique for all our sakes...
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Oh dear. I was thinking the other way around. Jim is older than me... No, I don't want to write it down. I wish for him to see his great grandchildren.
Lazarus52980:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on September 03, 2019, 06:52:42 AM ---So if Jim is able to do that, it should, when he gets the hang of it, shorten his writing time.
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I don't think it works that way. I'm no expert on writing, so I'll give a quote by someone who was:
“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain
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