In a previous question you stated that it took you so long to write The Eye of the World because you realized a number of things you hadn’t yet researched. What sort of things were these, and how did you survive the more tedious aspects of world-building (i.e., lists of government official names, lists of cities and their major imports and exports, etc.)?
Well, the tedious bits were quite easy, and it wasn’t so much a matter of research I hadn’t done as things that needed to be worked out—which I thought could wait until later because they were not going to come into the books until later. But I realized once I began writing that I had to realize how those things worked and fit together NOW, because that would affect how things happened in that first book.
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