Thats a great idea. I bet it stops so many repetitive emails and tweets from fans.
I really don't understand why his editors don't just provide him a team, like a tv show writing room, and he can bounce ideas off them and have them mechanically churn out his ideas. He could knock it out in a few months and be a hero and put it all behind him cleanly then.
Same with his parallel construction of lore using repetition of similar but distinct stories.
Simply saying "this is the truth" or "this is what happened" would not be the same, and I dont think many fanfic authors could pull it off convincingly.
I find the idea kind of revolting, but I am also surprised that collaborative writing is so rare. I suppose it cuts to the question of what the point of writing the book is in the first place.
It is hard to think of a recent example aside from the expanse by "James S.A. Corey"
I suspect it's less rare than we think it is, especially if you consider how much editing a lot of editors end up doing.
There are so many things that I picked up on the third read through that I simply would have been told in a later book if they were all available.
People say this often, and I don't get it. Sanderson is a terrible writer and his works and themes are nothing like ASOIAF. His only merit he has is "finishes books quickly". He's not even a fan of the books, he says they're "too dark" for him. He's the worst possible choice!
But I don't want anyone to finish ASOIAF if George dies before it's over. It's his story and no one else can do it right. We did this already and everyone hated it!
Until he took over, Rand was basically continuously loosing his sanity in the pursuit of power, which he needed to fight the dark one, which brought him closer to the madness, feeding the cycle.
It kept getting more urgent, things kept escalating. But Sandersons Rand never really lost control, imo. Rand's success felt preordained by his story telling, whereas previously the only thing we could expect was that Rand would go down fighting.
To be clear, I'm aware that Sanderson finished the story via Jordan's notes. But I strongly suspect he wouldn't have kept to them if he wrote it himself. I base that opinion on the fact that the series was supposed to be way shorter. I don't remember the exact number, but it was something like 6 books
>We did this already and everyone hated it!
Because they rushed it in a way that made no logical sense.
He's scammed his fans so many times by lying about the charity work rewards, I'm surprised any of them still donate.
I will not read the last one even if he publishes it. I won't disparage the guy here, but I am no longer a fan, and I have zero faith he will ever finish the series. And if he does, he gets zero minutes of my time and zero units of my money.
That was over a decade ago.
Or
That was before he made enough money to do something other than write in his trailer.
But I don't expect Brandon Sanderson to finish that one. In fact, I don't expect anyone to even think about it.
At least for me, the first 90% is way more fun than the last 10%.
The last 10% is where you need to come to terms with all the mistakes you made along the way that prevent you from getting the final polish you want
Or perhaps this is just copium on my part.
That's what gives them such a rich feeling because he's working with characters and how they'd perhaps operate in the world but that makes it hard to wrangle them into particular positions if you're dedicated to the idea that they should proceed naturally from where they are to where they are next. It leads to a bit of a combinatorial explosion of needing to setup causes to push them into the next part of the story but you have to setup those causes first, which need their own antecedents, and on and on and on.