Speaking of world building, the world, and the magic of The Wheel of Time universe is quite involved, quite complex…yet you keep a high degree of consistency. How do you keep things straight?
Every time I think of something new I jot it down in my notes. And I’ve built a sort of logic tree…if this is so and that is so, then this other thing cannot be so. Sometimes you reach a point where if you follow one line a thing cannot be so, but if you follow another it must be so.
So, you write fantasy “with the net up”?
I look at the magic as though it were technology in a way…as though it were science. The One Power and channeling follow rules…it’s not simply free-wheeling and ‘anything goes’; it follows specific rules. Those rules are pretty well worked out now.
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