And you’re also working on your own books right now as well. Has there been any trouble there, or have you been able to firewall that?
I’ve been able to firewall it. What I’ve done is that I tend to separate things timewise. I took the summer off [from The Wheel of Time] to work on some of my own projects that I needed to get back to, and so I gave myself four months or so of time to do that. I got done what I needed to do, and could then just section that off and get back to The Wheel of Time. The way I stay sane as a writer is I work on different projects. I’ll dedicate myself to something very big for a long time, and then I’ll cut it off and do something else for a while. Maybe it’s like taking a drink of water between trying different bites of food. I did that this summer. I went and did other things for a while to refresh myself. That’s worked very well in the past in keeping me from getting burned out. That’s where my kid’s series came from: Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians came from me taking a break between Mistborn 2 and 3, and not wanting to write the climax to the Mistborn books, feeling burned out on the series, and doing something else for a month.
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