Let’s get to the big question here, the title of the panel. The status question: where are we at with A Memory of Light ?
2% done.
How long do you expect it might take to finish?
About till the end of the year-ish.
And, as such, when might we see it on shelves?
Some time next year.
I can answer some of that a little more in depth. I am anticipating the length of the book to be about the length of The Gathering Storm . I am two-thirds of the way done with the notes with two of the three books, so that’s a pretty good indicator. Because of that, I keep a progress bar on my web site, and every three thousand words of rough draft I write, I will increase that progress bar by 1%. Which means that you can know exactly how much is written. And three thousand words… I think in word count because I’m a writer—it’s what we start doing—that’s for a Wheel of Time book, that’s like between half and a third of a chapter because Wheel of Time books have long chapters. It’s basically a medium length to longer scene, but not a chapter. And so there are two scenes done. And you can go and you can look at The Gathering Storm which is about 300,000 words, and you can guess based on that, 1% of that is 3000 words.
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