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** Then again, [[Macekre|it didn't stop his works from getting pretty bad translations at first]].
* Robert A. Heinlein. In so many ways. His early works, especially his 'juveniles', were constrained by the mores of the time and the rules of the publishers, and RAH ''benefitted'' from this immensely, it forced him to restrain some of his personal tropes and write better stories. In later years, freed from editorial and cultural restraint, his books became both longer and longer, and more and more repetitive, circular musings on a few favorite fixations.
* R.A. Salvatore is in an unusual state where he's both subject to this trope and strangled by [[Executive Meddling|the opposite]]. On the one hand, there's less and less oversight of the content and style of his ''Legend of Drizzt'' series, and quality has suffered grievously. On the other, his attempts to end the series were bluntly denied—he doesn't have the copyright, and his publishers [[Franchise Zombie|solicited another writer to continue the series]] before he backed down. One can't help but wonder if the recent [[Wallbanger]]s are deliberate attempts to wreck the series so he can move on. Or, "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12023&whichpage=53#262993 Drizzt has become more of an albatross for him.]"
** This applies across the board, and both to novels and RPG sides of ex-TSR. The general level of editing (though there were ''really good'' exceptions) shifted from "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=6#118705 apparently insane]" to "mostly nonexistent". Series zombification happens with other authors as well. Ed Greenwood, obviously, is in a similar position (but he started side projects away from Hasbro). [[Dragonlance|Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman]] also eventually fed up with [[Executive Meddling]] and bailed out. Weis now owns two RPG publishing houses.
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