The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Should Jim skip to the BAT?
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 08, 2022, 11:46:47 AM ---All of that is hard, I will grant that, and difficult to be creative in those times. However having said that, he did write the first of a decently long novel in a new series during that time. He also had a lot of personal appearances during that time, this is where all the WOJs come from. True, but he did write and complete a new novel in that time.
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A lot of WOJ's come from before and after the "down" period.
But... Aeronaut's Windlass came out in Sep.2015, Skin Game was May.2014, Cold Days was Nov.2012 (Jim obviously finished each work some months before they got published). But at that point, it's clear Jim was working at a good clip. He was more or less on-track with his "18ish months per book" pace.
Trying to paint him as somehow self-indulgent(?) for starting the CS series, or for working on CS when... I dunno, you're saying he "owes" the DF fans his exclusive labor?
Or that we in the fandom know better about how to manage time & other author resources than the guy with 30 or so novels already in print???
Seriously?
Consider burnout, too: Jim seems to be using CS -- in part -- to take a needed break from DF. I'm pretty sure, after publication of CS1/AW and before DF15/SG, there is WoJ stating he had been "sick of" Harry Dresden, but post-AW he was now very excited to be in the DV again. So, there's that.
morriswalters:
If he is suffering burnout he has my sympathy but he wears a yoke of his own devising. I'm sure when he was twenty it struck him as a good idea to tie so much of his life to a fictional character. I suspect he might feel differently today. The thing is he's made his boasts and it isn't easy to walk away and put the Dresden Files to bed. He'll be criticized no matter what he does.
Ed0517:
When the Files were less developed he was much more prolific - in 2004-2009 he came out with an Alera book each year, and a Dresden in each year except 2005.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Trying to paint him as somehow self-indulgent(?) for starting the CS series, or for working on CS when... I dunno, you're saying he "owes" the DF fans his exclusive labor?
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Not trying to paint him as self-indulgent, I understand that he has a personal life, and his share of woes, but so do us all. No, he doesn't owe us his exclusive labor, but neither should we be taken for granted, which it is beginning to feel like.
--- Quote ---If he is suffering burnout he has my sympathy but he wears a yoke of his own devising. I'm sure when he was twenty it struck him as a good idea to tie so much of his life to a fictional character. I suspect he might feel differently today. The thing is he's made his boasts and it isn't easy to walk away and put the Dresden Files to bed. He'll be criticized no matter what he does.
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Yes, he will be criticized, but one has to expect that when one is creative and presents his work to the public. If he is suffering burnout, then he needs to "simplify" as you say, tying yourself to another 20 to 30 years to one series that has become a drudge, isn't going to make it go away, nor will it help the quality of the work. I'm not sure which would be worse for his reputation as a writer, to announce that he is cutting back on the number of books he originally planned for The Dresden Files, or several increasingly poorly written books because his heart isn't in it anymore? I think I know the answer.
--- Quote ---When the Files were less developed he was much more prolific - in 2004-2009 he came out with an Alera book each year, and a Dresden in each year except 2005.
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Yes, the books during that time period were also more original, that is what got most of us hooked on the series.
spiritofair:
I say yes, simplify, write 12 months and Mirror Mirror. Make the wrestling book the last of the casefiles and then kick off the BAT. Dragons and Kaiju can be in the BAT. They're pretty freaking apocalyptic!
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