Many writers seem to be perfectionists at heart. Looking back on the published form of The Gathering Storm , what do you wish you could do to fine-tune that novel now that readers have started to comment on its presumed weaknesses?
I do wish I’d had was more time to polish the book. There was no more time; that book had to come out last year. The drafting process was so quick—I did 17 drafts of that book across the space of just a short number of months. Anytime you do a draft, artifacts show up. You say the wrong thing, or you’re thinking about one scene while writing another, and shift the tone the wrong direction. Or you just delete a word here or insert the wrong word.
If I have one feeling about weaknesses the book has, it’s that there are a few little rough edges that I would like to have smoothed out. We’re catching a lot of those for the paperback release.
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