How’s Towers of Midnight coming?
Towers of Midnight is 70% done.
Harriet’s answer: “If I can quote Robert Jordan, I can assure you without fear of contradiction, that Towers of Midnight will be on the shelves very shortly after Brandon finishes writing it.”
“This is a very, very…there’s a lot of work involved. People assume that when I was given the outline, I was given a point by point outline. RJ wasn’t like that. He wouldn’t show it to Harriet until he’d done twelve drafts. We got this in a state of incompleteness. The creative process isn’t as neat and orderly. Things were in dozens of files.”
Brandon would say “what order do you want it in?” and I would say “Brandon, you’re the writer. It’s foolish for the editor to take over the part of the writer. And vice versa.”
He dictated some and the assistants transferred it into notes, scoured their memory for anything he’d said and put that in the notes. And then all the files… “this was all handed to me and told ‘ok, let’s write a book.’”
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