Now that it’s done, it is time for me to take a break. I’ve been going full steam on the Wheel of Time and the Stormlight Archive now for about three years. These last eighteen months were particularly demanding, filled with seventy-hour weeks. I don’t regret it, and I’m certainly not complaining. I agree to deadlines when I make contracts, and I love my job. I will gladly work twelve- and fourteen-hour days six days a week at something I love if it means I don’t have to work eight hours a day five days a week at something I hate. (Which would be pretty much anything other than writing.)
But I have to take care not to burn myself out either. And so, as I did last summer, I’m going to take some time off and work on side projects. These are very relaxing to me—books that have no deadline and that no editor is waiting for or expecting to see. I’ll probably only have time to write one, and I’m not sure what it will be yet, but it won’t be an epic fantasy. (They take far too long for the time I’m giving myself.) Probably a YA novel or maybe even something wild, such as an urban fantasy or the like. Perhaps some short stories.
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