How did it affect your other…? You write your own books, obviously, separate from this. How did continuing his series—did it have any effect on your own writing?
Yeah, it did, actually. Completing his series had a dramatic effect on my own writing. For one thing, I had to shelve a lot of projects I was working on, because this took precedence. But at the same time, I’ve had to go back to the master’s work and really look at how he constructed stories. I think I’ve learned a lot. Writing this first third of A Memory of Light has been the most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. There’s nothing to compare with it. It’s like, you know, I was a runner used to going and doing the 500-meter dash and now I had to do a marathon. And it’s forced me to stretch in a lot of different ways. And because of that, I think I’ve grown a lot as a writer, and I don’t look at my own writing quite the same way any more.
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