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Interview #577: Utopiales Convention, Nantes, France: Interview with Brandon Sanderson, Entry #4

Question

Talking about silly questions… Who killed Asmodean? More seriously, did you read again the whole series of the Wheel of Time before beginning to write the last book?

Brandon Sanderson

I did. I had been chosen in part because I was a fan, and I had read most of the books multiple times. When I was offered the project, I knew that I needed to re-read from scratch. And so, from January 2008 to about April 1st, I re-read the entire series, taking notes. And the weird thing to me now is that it’s almost been three years since that. So I’m actually going to do that again, starting in January 2011; I’m going to read through straight again before I write the final chunk.

I’m starting to forget things, and that’s disturbing. You know, of all the people out there I can’t forget characters and what’s going on. So I need to do that again.

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