Tosh 8 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 I've been away... Sad things happening around me. I could do with a hug too... Link to post Share on other sites
Olivia 26 Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 *hugs Jan* Link to post Share on other sites
Brynefan 2 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I've heard rumours that AMoL probably will break 1000 pages at most. We won't need wheelbarrows Link to post Share on other sites
Ekho 52 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Just very sturdy bags Link to post Share on other sites
Kaitlin 22 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 And good book re-binding glue. Where did you hear those rumors? Dragonmount? *doesn't want to venture into wotmania* Link to post Share on other sites
jan 14 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Thanks for the hugs everyone And ack, what's with all these AMOL rumours while I've been away?! Link to post Share on other sites
Brynefan 2 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 According to sources on wotmania *sigh* Sanderson wrote in his blog that he expected the book to be somewhere between 300 000 and 400 000 words. Compared to Lord of Chaos with 392 000 pages and close to 1000 pages in paperback. I said rumours because people tend to read things wrong there. I don't want to hear another "Bryne can channel" theory. If I say no it is so. Link to post Share on other sites
Ishmael Moridin 0 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Wow, AMOL is going to be as big as we expected Link to post Share on other sites
Kaitlin 22 Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 I hope in a way that it is just AMOL Vol.1! I am greedy. Bryne channeling?! Oh yes, I think it was there that I heard some very strange "facts" about Moiraine back when I was an impressionable newb. They who can't spell her name correctly. *is not bitter?* edit: Thank you for letting us know about this! Well, Sanderson's blog talks about it but it's not an official length. He's thinking it will be around 300k-400k. As many of you may know, I have progress bars on the front of my website showing how far I've gotten on whatever project I'm currently engaged in. I've got one now listing how far along I am in my re-read of the series. (Finished CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT, by the way, and am now reading A NEW SPRING.) Will I do this for Book 12? I'm planning to, but with a few caveats. The thing is, it's hard for me to judge how long this project will take. It's unlike any book I've ever worked on. With my own novels, I've gotten to the point where I can sit down and plot them and know roughly how long they will be before I start. (I generally shoot for about 200k words in length for my epics, 50k for Middle Grade books, 80-90k for a YA novel.) I don't know how long AMoL is going to be, though. That's going to present a problem for running a progress bar of how far along I am. (The current program we have is percentage based, and I won't know what percentage is done if I don't know how long the novel is going to end up being.) Right now, my goal for the book is 300k minimum. Looking at the material Mr. Jordan left behind and the story that needs to be told, that's a realistic size to start with. This wouldn't make the book the shortest in the series, though it wouldn't be the longest either. It would be right in the middle. I'm expecting it to go longer than that, to be honest. Mr. Jordan himself often said of this book that it would be as long as it had to be, even if Tor had to invent a new binding for it! From what I've seen of the material, I don't think that's going to be necessary--I think he was responding to worries of the fans that he wouldn't tie the novel up in one volume. From his outline, writings, and other work on the project it looks to me that he was planning it to be in the 300-400k range. So, I'll probably start the progress bar assuming the book will be 300k long, then update it later when I have a better idea of its length. I will be needing to go and touch up the sections that Mr. Jordan wrote. (They are in rough draft from. As I've mentioned, I intend to leave them as pristine as is possible for the novel, with as minor editing as is possible while still maintaining the integrity of the novel.) Therefore, I'll start the bar at 0%, and once a section of pages is touched up or written by me, I'll update accordingly. Link to post Share on other sites
jan 14 Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 He hasn't even started writing yet! *impatient* Link to post Share on other sites
Marie 73 Posted March 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 I just want the chapter about Moiraine, thank you. Link to post Share on other sites
Kaitlin 22 Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 New Spring is a short book. He can get it done in a couple days! And then he better start writing while the Moiraineness is fresh in his mind. -Actually young Moiraine is not like mature Moiraine. So, he should go back to Book 3-5 for a quick review. >: | Link to post Share on other sites
jan 14 Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 I just want the chapter about Moiraine, thank you. I'd also like the chapter Rand dies. Link to post Share on other sites
Olivia 26 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Why doesn't the unstoppable force just go around the immovable object? Link to post Share on other sites
jan 14 Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 *panic* (And am I imagining things or have some of the smileys on this site turned green from bue?) Link to post Share on other sites
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