Does it ever present a challenge to you, or do you ever find it disconcerting when things that—you have a progression of story, you have some events you want to happen. There are certain things that are foreshadowed, sometimes specifically in dreams or in auras that are presented to particularly talented people. Are there ever times when people start making assumptions that certain things are going to happen that are either totally wrong…
Oh YES.
…or that you don’t want them to know that much about what’s going ahead that has resulted in a rethinking how you’re going to present things? Has it had any effect on the writing itself?
No. Not to any real extent. There are two things. One, occasionally I will find that the speculation is perhaps getting a little too close to something that I want to keep hidden for a while yet. So I try to become a little more subtle in talking about that. The other thing is that sometimes I discover that there’s intense discussion over something that I assumed was quite obvious. I wasn’t trying to hide anything at all, thought I was being quite straightforward, and I think, “Maybe I need to find a way to slip in something, a mention if it just happens to come up anyway, to let them know that this is the way that is supposed to be.” It’s simply a matter of how things come about, how it occurs with my work if it happens to come up.
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