I get unbelievably upset about this very phenomenon. It's made worse by the fact that most of the people who freak out in this way have zero idea of what it takes to write a book and prepare it for publishing. They cannot and do not try to understand that the turnaround time for a fast writer is one to two years (with two being more than the norm than one), because writing a novel isn't actually easy and the editing process is a gods-damned bitch.
I submitted a secret about this back when the release date for the final Wheel of Time book was announced and every one was freaking out and saying that they wouldn't buy it and they'd boycott Tor thenceforth and that they'd never buy a Brandon Sanderson book again because how DARE he write some of this own books while working on WoT. I remember some guy was like, "my six-year-old son could put out a book faster than you people," and I was like, "a) NO HE FUCKING COULDN'T and b) if you're old enough to have a child, then you're old enough to not throw a fucking tantrum because you have to wait a little while to get something that you want."
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I get unbelievably upset about this very phenomenon. It's made worse by the fact that most of the people who freak out in this way have zero idea of what it takes to write a book and prepare it for publishing. They cannot and do not try to understand that the turnaround time for a fast writer is one to two years (with two being more than the norm than one), because writing a novel isn't actually easy and the editing process is a gods-damned bitch.
I submitted a secret about this back when the release date for the final Wheel of Time book was announced and every one was freaking out and saying that they wouldn't buy it and they'd boycott Tor thenceforth and that they'd never buy a Brandon Sanderson book again because how DARE he write some of this own books while working on WoT. I remember some guy was like, "my six-year-old son could put out a book faster than you people," and I was like, "a) NO HE FUCKING COULDN'T and b) if you're old enough to have a child, then you're old enough to not throw a fucking tantrum because you have to wait a little while to get something that you want."
Gaaaaah!
/rant