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Interview #136: Elf Fantasy Fair - Aan’allein, Entry #37

Question

Do you have someone to advise you on writing sex scenes from a women’s point of view?

Robert Jordan

No. And if I had she would lie to me. A woman is as likely to tell the truth about that as men are to tell them, and if you think about how many of that you would tell anyone on god’s green earth about that. And if you come upon that teaspoon of liquified truth you would tell, know that that is five times the truth that she would tell you.

No, what I do is, I eavesdrop. [laughter] One time when he was younger and eavesdropping on women, he received Veritas . He knew everything there was to know about women. And it turned his hair completely white, and beyond, so that most of it is dark again, except for that piece in his beard there, plus it also erased all knowledge he had gained straight from his head.

Aan’allein

[In other words, more and more he was really getting in a funny-story-telling mood. Maybe Jordan should have become a stand-up comedian. I don’t know how much of the humor I manage to bring across, I can imagine it’s very little, but if you were there you would have laughed at every other remark, just like the rest of us.]

Robert Jordan

Once in all his books, he went to Harriet saying, “Okay, in this particular situation, this is how I think this woman would react, this is how I think she would feel. Do you believe it?” And she said, “yes, I do.”

Aan’allein

And then my tape ended.

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