Where's Donald?
I apologize for vanishing for a couple of days without explanation. I was reading Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams, Book 11 of The Wheel of Time series. It's one of those series that started out well but started to drag around the middle. The problem is that Jordan creates too many story threads, and by the time he's done re-introducing what's going on in each thread, he's halfway through the book and nothing has happened. I myself have a tendency to follow a lot of threads in my own writings, as you know if you've read Fire, which has four distinct threads: Victor with the Domini, Lucia, the Orcs, and Gaius with the Novar legions. However, I do my best to keep things from spreading out too much, whereas Jordan has six major threads and a dozen minor ones. This slows things down considerably.
I am, however, happy to report that things seem to have picked up in this most recent book, enough so that I've had trouble putting it down long enough to blog. I'm done now, so I'll try to do better this week.
