Now, structured as it is around the prophecies and the circularity of your history, does that lend to the story a certain . . . obviously, it focuses where the story can head. Does it limit you in any way, when you’ve got characters that are acting out the prophecies?
Not really. What I do is have certain main points that I know I’m going to touch on. But I am flexible in the order that I touch them, and I’m flexible in how to get from one to the next. Think of it as traveling cross country, and you know that you’re going to go to mountain A, mountain B, mountain C, and mountain D. But maybe you’ll go to mountain D first and mountain A second, and then you’ll slide back to C. And in traveling from one mountain to another, you can take a lot of different paths.
It becomes a little bit more complex because you have to imagine this whole piece of terrain is only one layer, and you have another piece of terrain stacked above it, and another stacked above it, and another stacked above it, and another stacked above that. And which path is taken on the first level influences which path can be taken on the second level, which influences which path can be taken and which can’t on the third level, and so forth on down the line. But still, the main points are fixed. It’s only the paths between that flex.
RJ might have been dropping hints here, in his special way, about Rand going to Dragonmount before going to Shayol Ghul.
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