I also saw the interview where you sat down with Tom Doherty and talked about your “master plan” to tie all your books together. And I know you’re always big on endings, so how are you approaching writing something so big and tying it all together?
Lots of work in my internal wiki mixed with continuity editors. I’ve hired people whose job it is to just keep me honest. Because when I sit down to write the first draft of a book, I’m trying to lay down the emotional resonance, get the characters right, get the plot right, get these really important things right. Following that I’ll worry about continuity sometimes—like, the little continuity. Of course you want character continuity from the very beginning, but some of these things we do like that. So having a continuity editor is very helpful in that realm and that’s one of the things I’ve done. Peter Ahlstrom is doing a lot, and Karen, his wife, has jumped in since she was a professional editor as well. So they’ve jumped in and are keeping me honest.
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