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Interview #431: Brandon Sanderson’s Blog: Summer Is Over, Entry #1

Brandon Sanderson

September first has come (well, and passed, by now) and I’m pleased to say that I met my goals. If you were reading the blog a few months back, you might remember when I explained that I needed to divert a lot of attention this summer achieving a couple of goals. The rewrite of The Way of Kings and the first draft of the fourth Alcatraz book. I not only had contracts to fulfill, but I needed a break.

Well, Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens is finished as of August 31st. There’s some revising to do, but that can happen on the back-burner as focus shifts back to The Wheel of Time. The break has been good for me; doing something different, as I’ve often said, refreshes me and helps me get work done. Just like the first Alcatraz book was something I needed to do to distract me between Mistborn books, work on this one has helped me take a breath and step back from the Wheel of Time (which had been dominating my life for fifteen or sixteen months.)

It’s time to move onward, however. I’m still waiting for a few bits of material from Charleston that I asked for, but that’s all right since I think the thing I need to do now is re-read all of Knife of Dreams , and maybe spots of some previous books. I don’t have the three months to dedicate to re-reading the entire series again, though I’m going to take the audiobooks on tour for plane rides.

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