So we know you’re doing the re-read of the series right now, and Twittering about it frantically. But how else are you preparing yourself to write the mother of all conclusions?
How am I preparing myself?
And this actually is for all four of you.
I’ll go first but I think that others will have some things to say along these lines. I think one of the things we’re doing is we’re slowing it down a bit. We all got overworked last year, and getting Towers of Midnight out by the date that we had promised and that Tor wanted it has had detrimental effects on our ability to work at the beginning of this year. And so, we are going to slow it down a bit. One of the reasons for this is the re-read, but one of the reasons is we just worked too hard last year. And there are repercussions for doing that, and if we do that again, you’re going to end up with a bad book. So, I think that’s one of the preparations we’re doing. We’re building in more time for revision, is really what we’re doing.
I second that. Brandon is one of the world’s fastest writers, but I am not one of the world’s fastest editors. Last year was what Jim and I, well what I learned to do for Robert Jordan was curbside edits, kind of drive-by edits, but after a while that has a big cost. And there was no way, looking at the last book, that I could do my part of the work again as fast as I did last year.
Alan? You have anything?
Preparation?
(Mumbled conversation ensues between Alan and Brandon and something about battles…)
All I was going to say is, we’re doing a lot of reading, all of us, in historical battles and the history of warfare in order to prime ourselves. I’m not going to tell you what specifically we’re reading, but we are doing a lot of research in that area, particularly Alan and I.
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