On 17 Apr, 09:08, Mandorallen <Mandoral...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-04-17, Ce` <lala...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On 11 Apr, 15:08, Mandorallen <Mandoral...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> On 2008-04-01, Ce` <lala...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> > Thank you, my knight in ****ning armour :)
>
> >> I do my best. :-)
>
> > Nicely put! I once got verbally beaten up by an old lady for saying
> > "I'll try my best".
> > She politely, but firmly, told me that trying was for failures, and
> > only To Do, not to 'try' :)
>
> I vaguely remember a small green person drilling this into me as a
> child. :-p
I'm telling your mother you said that :P
> > So, to bring this back on topic, was tRoA DE's attempt to try a stand
> > alone fantasy novel? And if so, I'd say he did his best with the
> > Losers, Regina's Song, etc
>
> I think it was, and it failed. Had there been an editor willing to tell
> him that the middle third of the book was somewhat repetitive, that
> the characters were largely one dimensional, and that he should go away
> and rewrite large chunks of it, I think it could have been a really good
> book. Unfortunately, having written series for so long, he's long since
> forgotten how to do anything in under 1500 pages.
*nods*
All true.
Anyone know what he's up to now he's finished the Dreamers?
Ce'Talia
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