So it’s been a little over three and a half years since Words of Radiance came out, how does it feel to have this book ready for release on Tuesday?
It feels great. Stormlight books are an enormous undertaking. People know me for big, thick, awesome but fat fantasy books. If you look in between, I’ve released four or so normal-sized books. The majority of the books I write are about the size you would expect the average novel to be.
But these books are something different and something special. It’s not just the idea of, you know, “I want to write big.” Big doesn’t mean better, necessarily, but what I can do in these books is I can really dig into a topic that you just can’t in a shorter book. I tend to plot these books like an entire trilogy, and each book had the plotting of a trilogy inside that single book. I include a short story collection in there that is interspersed in between. It’s a really different way to plot a book, just because there are so many moving pieces, so many different things going on, so many plot lines to cover, but also it’s really engaging and exciting to write because nothing else is like it. … There are really interesting things I can do with the format of a novel, and the methods of storytelling, that I just can’t do in anything else. It is really exciting but it is so exhausting.
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