Going back to the Way of Kings, as you said you wrote that, 2002 then you shelved it. So that’s, like you give it an introduction you say it’s over ten years of planning and through that, a lot of the planning on a series like that is also world building and so on, but the next book you said you want to get through as quickly as possible, do you think it’ll have an impact on the -not on the quality of the book, but on the type of book? In the sense, the Way of Kings took ten years and the new one, less. What do you think?
I’m hoping it won’t. I will have to see when I write it, I’m certainly hoping that I don’t have to write it and then shelve it for ten years; I think people would be very angry with me. If it’s the right move, I’ll do it but I think I would have major outcries. My instincts - over the years I’ve developed pretty good instincts for when a book is going to work and when it is going to be a rougher write and I will know very quickly once I start if it’s working or not. I’ll be upfront with people as I write it about that. My instincts right now are very good for it, I’m kind of chomping at the bit. There are many parts of the original Way of Kings that that I didn’t end up getting to in the new one, because it wasn’t time for them yet. So there’s still stuff floating from that book that is still going to be part of the future books.
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