Galad Damodred wrote:
> On May 12, 1:39=EF=BF=BDam, Sheep <d.l.dub...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Add to it he got too comfortable. =EF=BF=BDHe had money and had no
compe=
lling
> > reason to write efficiently anymore. =EF=BF=BDSo you got book after
book=
with
> > non-relevant side plots and lot of girls being stupid and pulling
> > their braids for page after page after page.
> >
> > A victim of his own success and the story that could have been his
> > legacy died with him.
>
> Good writers don't write for just money. They write because they enjoy
> writing and enjoy people reading their stuff. A good example is
> Stephen King. His work became so popular that he was scared people
> were buying his books purely because his name was on them. So instead
> he wrote under a pseudonym and those books were just as popular!
Not true. The Bachman books didn't sell anywhere near as well as the
King books, and only sold in respectable amounts when they were
republished under King's own name.
In this regard, Jordan actually seems to have surpassed King; the
books written under Jordan's various pseudonyms do all seem to be
selling quite well.
However, if an author gets too popular, there's a a danger that their
editor will be less willing to point out flaws in their work. After a
point, a writer becomes popular enough to sell books on star power
alone, and the editor doesn't want such an asset running to another
company who would be all too willing to publish whatever the writer
might churn out. As has been mentioned already in this thread, this is
what happened to Jordan - he got too popular, and Tor wasn't willing
to ask him to cut down on all the clothing descriptions, braid
pulling, and foldage of arms beneath breasts.
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