Do you think that the process of working on The Wheel of Time and The Stormlight Archive almost simultaneously has been beneficial to your writing of the two series, with influences from one creeping into the other?
Yes and no. I never write new material on more than one book at a time. I will be revising one while I’m writing new material for another, which really helps me keep my brain divided, if that makes any sense. It’s good to be influenced by Robert Jordan’s genius; it’s bad to let themes and tropes from one book creep into the other. So I’ve tried to keep those things separate. Yet at the same time, who I am as a writer influences what themes and tropes I put into books. I do think people will be able to notice similarities in some of what I’m doing, in the same way that you can notice similarities between others of my books. Hopefully there is a larger gap because the Wheel of Time is Robert Jordan’s rather than mine. I would say that there is an influence, but not an unhealthy amount.
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