Kevin's Watch

Welcome to the Watch!

Ditto, welcome to the watch.

Welcome.

Welcome, as well. (not sure how long this post is going to last here...needs to be in Summonsing).

Welcome Galinor.

--A

tyty, feel free to move it or delete it or whatever. But I did want to say hello.

Welcome to the Watch! (Where are the mods?)

Galinor wrote:tyty, feel free to move it or delete it or whatever. But I did want to say hello.

Oh, it won't be deleted. But generally 'hi/welcome' threads are moved to The Summonsing. So if it seems to disappear, that'll be where it's gone.

Wecome to the Watch!

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It sounds like you'd have fun contributing to our dissections, too!

And we like ad nauseum!

It's 'ad infinitum' that we have difficulty with.

Welcome to the Watch, Ianthina, Aras, and Galinor!

<-- wondering if I should welcome Galinor again, as I don't know from which thread this was moved. I did already welcome him in a chronicle thread.

Aw...you can never be made too welcome. So again...

Be welcome to the Watch, Galinor. Be Well Come and True.

Welcome and well met Galinor.

Welcome, Galinor!

Galinor wrote:I'm hoping this forum allows me to expand and keep alive this great Land

In terms of certainty I think that will run a close third to death and taxes.

Galinor wrote:where the Author has let it die.

While it is indeed tough when loved things end, I would say that 10 installations is a pretty good run...

Andy

magickmaker17 wrote:

kevinswatch wrote:

Vain wrote:Hail all new Watchers We've hit a slump in activity around here because this bunch has decided that WoW is more important (you know who you are )

So, it's up to the new folk to roll the stones and post away. Have fun with it and no, nobody will fritz all over you for starting threads

Bah. WoW. We totally need to ban that from the Watch.-jay

I don't think WoW can be contained or banned. They do have their own forum for their guild, you know. If you don't let them talk about WoW at all on here, you might succeed in driving them away. Or at least making it so they don't visit the watch as often.

Sorry, that was just a joke, heh.

But they have their own forum??? Outside of the Watch??? Heresy!-jay

I knew it was a joke. hence the

Ok, I'll grant you 10 installations is a pretty good run. I generally prefer bigger books, and long series because I tend to get caught up in the story and don't want it to end.

But I always felt different about this one. There are very few books I will re-read.. ( Why ? When there's so many new ones to read ) But this world always seemed so much more vivid to me. Tolkien for example ... less books, but Middle Earth NEVER dies. Games, movies, articles, fan clubs. Loved David Eddings, Glen Cook, R.A Salvatore on and on with the list, but really only 3 stories and worlds I can NEVER get enough of. Tolkien, Donaldson and Terry Brooks.

Tolkien died, so I can forgive him for not doing more with Middle Earth. Terry Brooks has written about 20 books in Shanarah series, but I feel like Donaldson has been really slacking here. I don't think anything else he wrote compared to TC. He left almost a 20 year gap between 2nd chronicles and final chronicles. lol ... unacceptable in my opinion !!!

Galinor wrote:I tend to get caught up in the story and don't want it to end.

I can't argue with that. Nor would I want to!

Galinor wrote:He left almost a 20 year gap between 2nd chronicles and final chronicles. lol ... unacceptable in my opinion !!!

But didn't SRD say he had to branch out into other genres, and grow as an author, before he even contemplated tackling the Last Chronicles? That he was himself intimidated by what he needed to produce to fulfill the vision he saw for the third series, even while he was writing the second?

I got a mixed message when I read that SRD interview (most likely due to my poor comprehension abilities rather than inconsistencies in what SRD said.) On one hand he said he deliberately left hooks/openings in the earlier books that would enable the plot line of the 3rd chronicles. This would indicate intention. However, I also remember he said that he had absolutely no intention of writing the 2nd chronicles and only changed his mind after his publicist kept offering really poor (in SRD's opinion) story line ideas. Perhaps the enabling plot hooks to which he was referring were in the 2nd chronicles. In other words, once he decided to write the 2nd he knew that he would also write the 3rd.

As for the time required to branch out and expand his abilities in order to do the 3rd chronicles justice, I thought he was implying that it was more of a fortuante coincidence. In other words it wasn't a formulated strategic plan, rather it was more of a "Good thing I didn't try to write these last books too soon or they might not have turned out so well!"

Others here with more knowledge, better memories and more insight can certainly comment more accurately on this.