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Interview #1044: Fantasy Faction Interview: Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Interview, Entry #3

Question

Every one over at Fantasy-Faction appreciates the amount of writing you are able to put out each year. At this point of your career, does writing feel like work or play to you?

Brandon Sanderson

It’s always been both. But once you become a professional, the less fun aspects of it are the revision, particularly revising on a deadline. The writing of the actual books is still as fun as it ever was. But in the old days, if I didn’t want to revise something at a certain moment, I just didn’t have to. Even when I was not as popular as I am now, I didn’t have to revise right away because there was so much time between when I turned in a book and when it came out. Nowadays, when editorial comments come in, I’ve basically got to drop everything and do revisions. I’ve never liked revising very much. So I would say that part of it feels more like work, while the rest of it feels about the same

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