I don't know if you've ever written or discussed this: but I'd love to hear more about your take on Robert Jordan. I've seen your writing on how he opened your eyes to the idea of it being a job, a craft.
But he's a fraught subject for writers, with a very compelling and interesting world on one hand, and a lot of... frankly extraneous writing, an inability to actually come towards dramatic conclusions, etc, on the other.
I've grappled with this myself, being fascinated by the story but ground down by the prose.
I've fallen in love with your work, consuming Riot Baby almost in one sitting. You have such clear command of your prose, and none of the bloat I've seen in Jordan. Have you grappled similarly with the sheer-word scale of Wheel of Time?
Do you have a different perspective on approaching those books and that style? Maybe I'm just not meeting the books where they're at...
I don't know if you've ever written or discussed this: but I'd love to hear more about your take on Robert Jordan. I've seen your writing on how he opened your eyes to the idea of it being a job, a craft.
But he's a fraught subject for writers, with a very compelling and interesting world on one hand, and a lot of... frankly extraneous writing, an inability to actually come towards dramatic conclusions, etc, on the other.
I've grappled with this myself, being fascinated by the story but ground down by the prose.
I've fallen in love with your work, consuming Riot Baby almost in one sitting. You have such clear command of your prose, and none of the bloat I've seen in Jordan. Have you grappled similarly with the sheer-word scale of Wheel of Time?
Do you have a different perspective on approaching those books and that style? Maybe I'm just not meeting the books where they're at...