On Facebook he's been talking about having to revamp the book.
Werthead Send a noteboard - 16/01/2010 03:04:07 AM
If memory serves, Sanderson turned in his completed draft for TGS in April for a late October release. The equivalent for a March/April 2011 release for ToM would entail him turning in his manuscript in September or October of this year, or maybe August if he wants an extra month of editing. To my mind, given that he's 82% complete and it's only January, either 1) he really expects to need ten to eleven more months to finish his draft (amounting to progress of only about 2% per month), which seems unlikely even if one plotline does need to be revamped; or 2) he will be finished before September/October, but Tor wants to delay publication for some reason.
On Facebook/Twitter, Sanderson has been saying that he's thinking of abandoning the structure he had before, namely that THE GATHERING STORM is the book with the self-contained story (the long dark night of Rand al'Thor) and TOWERS OF MIDNIGHT is everything else thrown together in a ramshackle fashion to clear the subplots out before AMoL, and wants to give TOWERS a much more cohesive through-line, which seems to be what the audience responded to very well in TGS.
From that, I take it that he's planning a thorough revision and possible rewrite of some of the material he has completed already.
ToM will probably be pushed back to March/April 2011
- 15/01/2010 10:34:07 PM
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I have to wonder.
- 16/01/2010 01:44:42 AM
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On Facebook he's been talking about having to revamp the book.
- 16/01/2010 03:04:07 AM
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I liked that RJ never mentioned dates, until it was official
- 16/01/2010 01:49:56 AM
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