The Encyclopedia’s already been published [BWB], but we have the raw notes. To keep track of what I’ve written, I have all sorts of “Remember” files. Every nation has a file listing culture, customs, everything about that country I might need to know plus every character who has been mentioned as a native of that country, all the information that’s been given about him or her in the books, even some things that haven’t been used yet. There’s a file for everyone: named and unnamed, living, dead, historical, whatever! “Who Is Where” is a file that lists, country by country, the last place every character in the book was seen. “ABC” (which used to be called “The Glossary”) has every word or term or name I’ve created including every word in the Old Tongue. If I printed out all the “Remember” files, they’d be somewhere between 1,300 and 1,500 pages—but there are limits! They would probably be insanely boring for most people, but I want to make sure I remember what I created on the fly.
Tor has set up a website with a Question and Answer of the week. And Jason Denzel at Dragonmount.com set up a blog for me. When I’m not touring I’ll post maybe once every week or two. I haven’t been flamed yet on my site and trolls haven’t shown up, but I don’t know that I expect them to. My fans are generally pretty nice, polite people. In their discussion groups they say who they hate and what they hate about what I’ve written—that’s OK; if I can create somebody powerful enough that people really hate them, I’m doing my job even if I didn’t mean for them to be hated. The characters don’t have lives of their own, though. Whatever my readers may think, I’m an Old Testament God with my fist in the middle of my characters’ lives: I created them and they do what I want, when I want them to! I do figure out why they’re behaving that way, as if they were real people, and that helps the reader believe in them.
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