Prologues are developing into a pet peeve of mine. I’m reading Knife of Dreams, and Jordan once again starts off with a 100-page prologue. Why wasn’t this a chapter?
Somewhere along the line, I came up with a pretty specific definition of what a prologue was. It is not based on any dictionary definition, as the [...]
The purpose of a prologue
Filed under Trends & Tropes on January 9, 2007
Keywords: Maiden of Pain, prologues, Robert Jordan, Shattered Amulet, Wheel of Time
15 Things about books and me
Filed under Love Your Geek on December 15, 2005
Keywords: Bible, books, Dragonlance, Dungeons and Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Hardy Boys, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, memes, Narnia, Robert Jordan, Shannara, Star Wars, Terry Brooks, Wheel of Time
I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical.
1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through pages. [...]
Does page count equal quality?
Filed under Soapbox on May 11, 2004
Keywords: novels, Wheel of Time
The question was raised in another thread why recent novels, and fantasy ones in particular, are so fat? Examples like Wheel of Time and the new Dragonlance novels were sited as books that runneth over, and not in a “bountiful blessings” kind of way.
I have no problem with 700+ page books or series that extend [...]
Big Wheel keeps on turning
Filed under Soapbox, Writing Journal on April 20, 2004
Keywords: Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time
This is not going to be your typical Robert Jordan bash. There won’t be any health-related jokes or calls to boycott the series. I just wanted to share my thoughts on this seemingly never-ending series.
Many of you have probably already heard that the next Wheel of Time novel won’t even really be a Wheel of [...]
