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Interview #894: AMOL Book Tour - Dayton Q&A, Entry #11

Question

This is a different person’s writing for you. A lot of writers discover along the way, and for you, how different was it working on this book. Where there still discoveries?

Brandon Sanderson

There were still discoveries, but I am more what we call an architect. This is a type of writer who builds a frame and then builds a story around that frame. I certainly do discover certain things, like…I don’t know what each chapter exactly is going to be—I know what will be accomplished in that chapter, and then I sit down and then I find interesting ways to do it—but on the macroscopic scale, I almost always know exactly where I’m going when I’m writing a book, and with this, that actually worked the same way, because Robert Jordan had written many scenes and had left many instructions on what was to happen, and those became the foundation of my framework that I used to write from, and so instead of me brainstorming those, which would happen in one of my own books, I used his framework that he had given me, and I built the story around that.

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