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You think The Kingkiller Chronicles will never be finished? I'd be quite disappointed by that.

selykg 6y ago
The second book was published in 2011. It has now been 9 years between books and there's no sign of book 3 anywhere. His editor posted on social media that they haven't seen even a draft of the third book. If you have hope that book 3 exists, I would caution you to reign in your expectations a bit.
- Viliam1234 6y ago
  I have been waiting since 1993 for the fifth part of The War Against the Chtorr.
zaphirplane 6y ago
To be fair, respect for talent . When you can create a tv show the caliber of game of throne 5 years after the 1st book is release catch-up and over take the books. It makes you wonder if there is difficultly to completing epic, wheel of time dragged out, king killer and game of thrones. On the other hand Malazan seems to be fine thou it’s loosely bound, and the book writing AI brandon sanderson works 25 hours a day
- selykg 6y ago
  To be fair, game of thrones, the first book in the song of ice and fire series came out in [1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overvie...) The TV show started in 2011. Kingkiller Chronicles is only 3 books, hardly epic. It's a trilogy. The first book came out in 2007, second in 2011, and nothing has been seen of the third, and presumably, final book. Brandon Sanderson treats writing books as a job, thus he writes every day. Now you could argue that his books aren't as entertaining to you (subjective) or that his prose isn't as good (a bit less subjective), but he does treat his job like a job. Whereas Rothfuss and GRRM seem to try to do literally anything but continue writing their books. Sanderson isn't a bot but he has something a lot of people lack, work ethic.
  - mdhen 6y ago
    Stephen King sits down every day and writes x amount of pages. 10 or 15 maybe, been awhile since I've read on writing but he talks about it in there. He is not super concerned about the quality of it, he just wants to get it out there. If those pages end up as part of an actual book then he'll obviously be going back over them etc. I assume Sanderson operates very similarly. GRRM on the other hand agonizes over writing out perfect rough draft pages and thus never gets anything done.
    - selykg 6y ago
      Yea, there's usually two general types of writers, and they can be on a teeter totter so to speak: Those that outline and plan ahead of time using the outline Those that write the story as they write Sanderson is very much an outliner, I think GRRM is more a it'll come together as I write it kind of person. He probably has some sort of plan, but it isn't as fine tuned as Sanderson's I suspect. Sanderson does multiple drafts as well, which works with how I write. My first draft may be complete trash, but getting it on paper helps me a lot in at least getting the ideas out and then I can fine tune or start over if I'm not happy at all. But yes, I think Sanderson is very much a "I write regardless and I'll refine it over time" type of person and doesn't agonize over the little details until it's time to actually do that.

The second book was published in 2011. It has now been 9 years between books and there's no sign of book 3 anywhere. His editor posted on social media that they haven't seen even a draft of the third book. If you have hope that book 3 exists, I would caution you to reign in your expectations a bit.

Viliam1234 6y ago
I have been waiting since 1993 for the fifth part of The War Against the Chtorr.

zaphirplane 6y ago

To be fair, respect for talent . When you can create a tv show the caliber of game of throne 5 years after the 1st book is release catch-up and over take the books. It makes you wonder if there is difficultly to completing epic, wheel of time dragged out, king killer and game of thrones. On the other hand Malazan seems to be fine thou it’s loosely bound, and the book writing AI brandon sanderson works 25 hours a day

selykg 6y ago
To be fair, game of thrones, the first book in the song of ice and fire series came out in [1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overvie...) The TV show started in 2011. Kingkiller Chronicles is only 3 books, hardly epic. It's a trilogy. The first book came out in 2007, second in 2011, and nothing has been seen of the third, and presumably, final book. Brandon Sanderson treats writing books as a job, thus he writes every day. Now you could argue that his books aren't as entertaining to you (subjective) or that his prose isn't as good (a bit less subjective), but he does treat his job like a job. Whereas Rothfuss and GRRM seem to try to do literally anything but continue writing their books. Sanderson isn't a bot but he has something a lot of people lack, work ethic.
- mdhen 6y ago
  Stephen King sits down every day and writes x amount of pages. 10 or 15 maybe, been awhile since I've read on writing but he talks about it in there. He is not super concerned about the quality of it, he just wants to get it out there. If those pages end up as part of an actual book then he'll obviously be going back over them etc. I assume Sanderson operates very similarly. GRRM on the other hand agonizes over writing out perfect rough draft pages and thus never gets anything done.
  - selykg 6y ago
    Yea, there's usually two general types of writers, and they can be on a teeter totter so to speak: Those that outline and plan ahead of time using the outline Those that write the story as they write Sanderson is very much an outliner, I think GRRM is more a it'll come together as I write it kind of person. He probably has some sort of plan, but it isn't as fine tuned as Sanderson's I suspect. Sanderson does multiple drafts as well, which works with how I write. My first draft may be complete trash, but getting it on paper helps me a lot in at least getting the ideas out and then I can fine tune or start over if I'm not happy at all. But yes, I think Sanderson is very much a "I write regardless and I'll refine it over time" type of person and doesn't agonize over the little details until it's time to actually do that.