Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
He's got to stick to 7 books. And the next one needs to be like 2 years from now, not 5 or 6.

I've never read those wheel of time books and don't have any plans to do so (way too many books to read). But from all I've heard they turned to absolute shit for the last four or five books before the guy died, but now they've got this new guy writing them with the previous author's help and they're supposedly much better. So maybe that will happen.

I don't think the last two have been absolute shit though.
I think the last WoT book I read was number 6 or 7.

The difference between Jordan and Martin is that Jordan had everything planned out well in advance. He knew exactly where his story was going, so it was relatively easy for another author to pick it up for him. Martin openly admits he is just winging it.