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Interview #46: Twitter: AMOL Writing and Editing Process, Entry #41

Brandon Sanderson (30 September 2011)

FINALLY done with the through line I’ve been working on for weeks now. Progress bar moved to 70% done.

SRINATH UPADHYAYULA

When can we expect it??? What do you think?? #reallyreallycan’twait!!

BRANDON SANDERSON

Sometime next year. I suspect they’ll set a date when I give them the first draft in November.

BRANDON SANDERSON

Now, to fire a gun that has been sitting on the mantle since the middle (chapters 30-40) of book 3.

TEREZ

Now THAT is a good clue. (The Mat one was not incredibly surprising, but this one will be fun.)

TEREZ

Want to discuss @BrandSanderson’s latest A Memory of Light clue? It’s a good one!

BRANDON SANDERSON

Theoryland thread on what I just posted: http://www.theoryland.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=6057 Thanks @Terez27.

BEN KLUGE

Has anyone got close yet:) ?

TEREZ

Pfft, we’ve barely started yet.

BEN KLUGE

I know—but once we have got started the odds of possibly getting an answer drop from very low to zero.

BRANDON SANDERSON

Ha. I already flirt with giving away too much. I doubt you’ll pull anything more from me for a while.

4TH AGE

I’m sure with how conscious you are of us examining your every word you checked, so are you SURE it’s in those chapters?

BRANDON SANDERSON

99% sure.

TEREZ

Would you at least confirm you’re not talking about 13-13? You referenced that as a Chekhov’s Gun before Towers of Midnight

TEREZ

…and so the association is hard to shake. But it was introduced in The Dragon Reborn 22 and of course already showed up in Towers of Midnight .

TEREZ

And technically, you could be referring to that since we didn’t actually see the turning. And 99%. :( … ;)

BRANDON SANDERSON (5 OCTOBER)

Mat is so much fun to write. The trick, which is hard, is to get the right mix of humor & awesome. One without the other just isn’t Mat.

TEREZ

Ahh, confirmation. And good luck with Mat. ;)

BRANDON SANDERSON

Not sure what I’m confirming, but okay. On the thing I tweeted before, it’s obviously NOT 13x13. It is cool, but smaller than that.

TEREZ

Cool. I was talking about the fact that you were working on Mat’s ‘through line’. I had assumed you were. Smaller? Hmm.

FOOTNOTE—TEREZ

In retrospect I’m not so sure he was working on Mat’s through line because in the previous one, he specified he was writing Mat’s thoughts.

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