For the love of good things, tell me who kills Asmodean?
Real question: Mistborn surprised me with its intensity. I didn’t think that it would have as big of an impact on me that it did, and for writing it, thank you.
How long do things cook in your mind before you put them on paper?
Spoiler
When you write something as beautiful as “I am hope.” Does it give you the chills? Where does something like that come from? I am just so fucking amazed that, even though I knew of his past with his wife and the mines, that you could make me think he was just doing it for greed reasons… then you bust out with this and I was floored. It cemented the entire trilogy for me. With that one line, I will forever buy anything you write.
/heroworship
The Asmodean killer is revealed in Towers of Midnight . (Look in the glossary.)
How long things cook depends on the project. Some, like The Way of Kings , cook for decades. Mistborn was a period of about 2-3 years. Others, like my children’s series, are exercises in free writing with very little ‘incubation’ time give.
As for the last question…sometimes, it’s hard to pinpoint how things come together, even for a planner like myself. I often compare writing to playing music. Often, a musician gets to the point where they don’t know why their fingers move as they do—through a great deal of training, they learn to just make it happen. Writers develop similar instincts, but for plot, character, and prose.
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