Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 days agoConsidering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.
Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 days agoConsidering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
She was a professional editor and worked on his books before they started dating. She’s also been the editor for several other classic and famous series’. So unless you’re implying that her feminity is cause for lesser quality, I fail to see the relevance.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Wasn’t implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don’t believe she did that in editing her husband’s books.
The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband’s works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.