Towers of Midnight (analysis)
[This is part of a series analyzing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time novels. Previous installments can be found under the tag. Comments on old posts are welcome.] Side note first: the poll results thus...
View ArticleWheel of Time Index Post
I’m putting this together now rather than after I’m done with the whole shebang because people (myself included) may want to look back at some of the previous entries before the last ones appear. I...
View Articlenotes on A Thousand Paths in a Single Step
I don’t think I could have written this story without the Wheel of Time wiki and Leigh Butler’s recaps on Tor.com. Between those and the occasional bit of searching via Google Books, I was able to...
View ArticleYuletide reveals
A Happy New Year to all. I spent mine with my brother and sister-in-law, just having a quiet evening, which was about my speed this year. I hope yours was pleasant and enjoyable, too. Since authors on...
View ArticleRevisiting the Wheel of Time: “The Strike at Shayol Ghul”
As soon as I’m fed and dressed, I’ll be wandering down to the bookstore to pick up A Memory of Light, whereupon I will finish what I started in the summer of 1995: the story of the Wheel of Time. It...
View Articleoh, why not
Herewith my liveblog of reading A Memory of Light. (Which may replace the “reactions post” in its entirety; we’ll see.) Holy shit. This book is, like, real. And in my hands. I’m not sure I believe it....
View ArticleA Memory of Light Liveblog, Part 2
Today I continue reading A Memory of Light, and subjecting you all to my stream-of-consciousness reactions as I go. (Where by “all” I mean “those of you who click on the cut tag,” which is probably not...
View Article(Re)Visiting the Wheel of Time: A Memory of Light (analysis)
[This is part of a series analyzing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time novels. Previous installments can be found under the tag. Comments on old posts are welcome.] I pretty much covered my reactions to...
View ArticleHow to write a long fantasy series
It took three years and two months rather than the two years I initially planned, but I have, at very long last, finished the Wheel of Time re-read and analysis. And as I promised quite some time ago,...
View ArticleAdapting the Wheel of Time
I doubt they’ll ever make the Wheel of Time into a TV series — but it’s an interesting mental exercise, thinking about how they would do it. (I do this sort of thing a lot, because it makes me think...
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