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.
How could he give ToM a more cohesive storyline without either cutting into material originally intended to appear in AMoL (i.e. the Last Battle) or substantially changing the pre-TG story that RJ left behind to artificially make it more cohesive? I'm not a writer, but it seems to me that one would be hard-pressed to make a story more cohesive without tinkering with its underlying elements/building blocks. I suspect RJ may have forseen this issue and for that reason wanted to publish AMoL as a single volume at all costs.
This message last edited by RandAllThor on 16/01/2010 at 01:01:59 PM
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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Sounds great, but....
- 16/01/2010 12:02:50 PM
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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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