Lol free babysitting maybe. Probably Madness meant disseminating his work as much as possible, donating to his site, buying his books or on audio, things of that nature.
+1. Though, who's arguing for discarding practicalities; by all means, with babysitting, we can throw in yard work, cooking, shopping, chauffeurs.
His name was Nil'giccas. His name was Nil'giccas...I agree with locke. The amount of time that it takes to write the books is largely a personal thing. He seems to agonize over every detail and he admits to rewriting whole section several times. On top of that, I feel like his publishing company puts other stupid restrictions on him (like word count) that make the whole process worse for Bakker, and just add to the total amount of time that he spends writing.
In all seriousness, that man attempts almost musical regime of practice when it comes to engaging his routine. Even if he devoted the bulk of his time to his thesis and Earwa, which he does, there are the extra-curricular writings he engages in (TPB, comments, e-mail,
other fiction), not too mention the possibility of teaching to top it all.
I would bet that if this forum got popular enough he might indulge us with an interview or a small Q/A, but the tiny community of 15 fans we've got here just isn't enough to grab at his attention. For something like that to happen we need the other 70 or so people that lurk to participate. If we had even 100 active members that would be a nice start, but a group of 15 geeks talking amongst themselves just isn't going to cut it.
+1. Honestly, Wilshire, I think it is inevitable but that could just be my optimism showing.
@ Wilshire - What happened to all the fans of the old Three Seas forum? Do you know that? I remember that first forum to be very active and Scott even participating himself. He even had that forum and the two admins in his dedication in at least one of the books.
It was a series of unfortunate events, Kellais. He participated in the Author Q&A like he keeps up the blog, basically. Initially, Bakker cites a pron virus for torching his laptop resulting in a lost portion of TTT, which he had to rewrite. This is why he religiously writes on a laptop that's not hooked up to the internet now. Then through a combination of the Spam Sranc, a steady decrease in user content, and finally permanent inactivity by the mods, the forum went comatose.
Sovin Nai, who was the admin at the old Three-Seas, (aengelas here, if he's joined the new forum) and I have talked periodically, which is how the old forum is now preserved as Zombie Three Seas at the old link:
http://forum.three-seas.com. He still owns the server as I understand it so we've talked about possibly porting this forum to his servers at some point in the future. We also considered getting an official fansite running but there was little to no interest/we have about 10 - 15 participating forumers.
Lol, I've written this story before in the quoted portions from the old forum... I wonder how my memory function has been preserved in the past year.