Hey, maybe he'll pull a Robert Jordan and we'll get to watch another series drag out far longer than the author's overly optimistic predictions while giving Sanderson another chance to show his writing chops in a story that isn't set in one of his shitty cookie-cutter worlds.
Hah, as if. We all know that GRRRRRRRRRM has a clause in his will that orders for all of his notes and drafts to be burned and that nobody until the end of time is allowed to do anything with whatever-the-fuck people call the world Westeros and Essos are in.
Sanderson has some faults, but I wouldn't call his outing with The Way of Kings et al could be described as cookie cutter in the least.
That out of the way: 1) Sanderson would never continue it because it's not his kind of thing. He's read the first book, and he's quite aware that it's not his cup of tea. 2) If anyone were allowed to continue the series I think Mark Lawrence is probably best suited to continue the series if we come down to brass tacks. 3) You're correct, his will does say that. He's amazingly anti-fanfiction.
I don't have much of a point with this post, I just see the Sanderson-finishes-ASoIaF joke way too much, and it's just very stupid to me when there's so many other writers would would be better suited to the joke.
Ah, I haven't tried The Way of Kings. I've done the first couple Mistborn books, Elantris, and a draft of Warbreaker. And his own worlds just seem to fit neatly into the same mold of "Boy/Girl meets Slightly More Worldly Girl/Boy, become friends with obvious overtones of romance, and learn how to use a completely unique and original magic system which revolves all around... GEOGRAPHY AND CALLIGRAPHY!/METALS!/COLORS!, after which they go on to defeat Generic Evil McBadman and his sinister plot to do... something!"
Which is sort of tragic, because he did a damned good job closing out WoT, is obviously a competent writer, and I'd like to see him write more things that don't feel so shallow and unthoughtful. I say this with full knowledge of the evils I commit, but I've read the first and second novels in Terry Brooks' first Shannara trilogy, and even
that felt a bit less dull and predictable despite practically being a transcript of an RPG campaign he played with himself and half a dozen imaginary friends.
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