What do think you’re going to feel like once it is actually done and out and over? Is it just going to relief? Do you think you’re going to be kind of sad? Collapse in a puddle on the floor?
All of the above. It’s going to be a major relief; there will be a sadness to it. There will be definitely a sadness, though having read the ending already, that sadness began for me in 2007, because the series is already finished for me. The work isn’t done, but the series is finished. And so that melancholy, it won’t come to a crux until that book is finally out. But I think the others might, you know they’ve been working on this much longer than I have, so they may have something different to say.
Yeah, it’s been a long ride. It’s going to be wonderful to have it finished; it’s going to be sad that it will be finished. It won’t be totally finished for Harriet, Maria, and myself because we’ll be producing the encyclopedia, which will come out approximately a year after this book hits the bookshelves. This is the longest I’ve ever held a job. And you know, it hasn’t felt like a job. I always say that my life is primarily fantasy, if you include very vivid dreams, the food I eat, what I do after dinner, there’s very little reality left in my world. So I’m curious to see how that’s going to change when this is all over. But yeah, it’s been a great ride.
It’s been a very good ride. And it’ll be good to have it finished in some ways, and it will be sad. I’ve been doing this fifteen years now, and it’s going to be different. But, I am looking forward to being able to actually really talk about the Wheel of Time without having to think really hard about every word I say.
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