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That's kind of sad, but I guess it makes sense given how close the BG/PT releases are.yeah. Much more than 3 chapters and I imagine that it gets mighty spoilery
Wait a week, it will be accurate then, patience is a virtue (and probably a sister of Charity Carpenter).
There will be a chapter drop -- but probably not for another 6-8 hours.
... exceeded only by the torture of finishing the new chapter and realizing it's a whole week before you'll get another...
I doubt it's burnout. It's probably a timing issue. If the decision to split the book was probably made fairly late in the process, that could have messed up the editing in a lot of ways.I agree with this as well
The book doesn't feel like "burnout" to me, but that's totally IMO. It just feels less-professionally/less-well edited.
If the manuscript hadn't been submitted to the publisher, one would think that it should have been fixed. There are deadlines of course, now it it was too near one, he might night have been able to. However having said that, one would think the Betas would also have a deadline upon which to submit their corrections to Jim so he could fix the errors. Now a lot may depend on the creative process, for example what may seem like a simple factual error to us or even the Betas, might mean that Jim would have to rewrite a whole chapter, because fixing the error might mess up the whole. But then again, none of that makes sense.. I go back to burn out with the series.
I understand your quote was an invention but it was suppose be a "commentary" about what Priscellie actually said, so I provided one actual quote to compare. She does not mention anyone. I have the feeling she is not shading Jim but Penguin, but the quote is open to interpretation...which was actually my point. Don't assume she is criticizing Jim.
I found another quote were she says "Oy, leave the betas out of the criticism of the rampant continuity errors. We pointed all that nonsense out. XD"
Edited: And here, this is worse
https://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/hxfg46/that_copper_circle/fzbya7l/?context=3
If it truly was what I was pretty sure it was, then using it was going to put me in a long-term pickle
I mean, just as she and Harry are really getting together? This would be so cliché that I just can't believe Jim would do it. Not to mention his little tweet from a few years ago, where he said that he just wrote Murphy's funeral. There's this little trope where writers troll their audience when they set up the expectation that a cliché would happen and then subvert that expectation. I strongly feel that this is one of those times.
We'll know in two weeks, anyway.