G’day, how’s it going?
G’day! I dunno….I’m not supposed to really say that am I? It sounds really horrible from an American.
[laughs] It’s perfect.
Yeah, I’ve been taught…cr…crikey. It’s got an “oi” in it, apparently. Croikey?
Crikey, mate. Just out of curiosity, which do you enjoy more, writing your own creations, or somehow writing somebody else’s creations like the Wheel of Time and then working within those parameters?
I would say, my own books with a caveat, and that caveat is the Wheel of Time. The Wheel of Time is not something I…I did not say yes to this because, for any other reason than a love for this series since I was a kid. And there are very few things I would have said yes to along these lines. I became a writer to tell my stories, but I studied Robert Jordan’s works when learning how to be a writer. Rand, Perrin and Mat feel like my old high school buddies; they’re the people I grew up with. I was one of these bookworms who sat in my room and read book, and those were my friends. And so, having the chance to help with this is a lot like, I dunno…it’s a lot like completing my master’s last masterpiece, if that makes sense. It’s a special thing. It’s not a matter of enjoyment or not; it’s a special honor, and boy has it been hard. It’s way hard. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done career-wise, and it’s been amazing for me as a writer. That said, I wouldn’t say yes to this for anyone else. I wouldn’t even say yes if, for some reason, Lucas were to come to me and want something like that. There’s nothing really I would ever say yes to doing this same thing. That isn’t to say I might not…you know, I’ll probably do other little novellas and things where I poke around and whatnot, but this project has meant a lot to me all my life, and so it was a thing I did because of what it was, and I don’t know how to explain it other than that.
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