Robert Jordan has Amyloidosis

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

Info can be found here:
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html

Here’s a brief excerpt from his letter. The link tells a lot more about his condition and the disease.

I have been diagnosed with amyloidosis. That is a rare blood disease which affects only 8 people out of a million each year, and those 8 per million are divided among 22 distinct forms of amyloidosis. They are distinct enough that while some have no treatment at all, for the others, the treatment that works on one will have no effect whatsoever on any of the rest. An amyloid is a misshapen or misfolded protein that can be produced by various parts of the body and which may deposit in other parts of the body (nerves or organs) with varying effects. (As a small oddity, amyloids are associated with a wide list of diseases ranging from carpal tunnel syndrome to Alzheimer’s.

Jim Rigney/Robert Jordan

I hope he does well, and I know it’s selfish, but I sure hope he finishes WOT real soon.

[cckerberos]

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[Ogre]

Is that the disease that forces people to write long, pointless prose they have no intention of ever finishing so that people will keep buying their 700-page novels with ridiculous amounts of detail about Egwene’s party dress and no substantive plot development?

Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. I’m sorry he’s unhealthy.

[slortar]

@Ogre

Is that the disease that forces people to write long, pointless prose they have no intention of ever finishing so that people will keep buying their 700-page novels with ridiculous amounts of detail about Egwene’s party dress and no substantive plot development?

Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. I’m sorry he’s unhealthy.

Ah, no. I’m afraid this is the disease that forces someone to hallucinate that all women are pretty much interchangeable save for one defining quirk such as wanting to learn how to swear or tugging on a braid when angry.

The 700 page novel thing is just greed and laziness.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

@cckerberos

Previous thread on this topic.

Damn! I even searched for a previous thread and everything!

Mods, you can close this thread.

[fluiddruid]

Done and done.