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Interview #473: TGS Signing Report - Freelancer, Entry #24

Freelancer

Ok, folks, that’s about it.

Brandon Sanderson

One other tidbit, Brandon said that there are no scenes in The Gathering Storm that he invented. Some scenes were from very rough outlines, some in detailed outlines, and some completely finished, but he did not think up scenes at all. He said that there was much creative work for him to do, and there were scenes that he altered in order to blend in with those before/after. He said that Harriet told him that Jim often wrote a dozen or more drafts of a scene before letting anyone else read it, so he didn’t have to presume that every word among the notes and outlines was exactly how Jordan would have ended up wanting it, which allowed Brandon the freedom to do what he believed best for the book as a whole. He did quite well indeed.

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