I’ve really enjoyed it, I’ve read book twelve and thirteen, it’s always kind of difficult to get a transition between voices of different authors, but I’ve really enjoyed the last two books. Was there a particular character that was difficult for you to write? You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to.
No, no, I can answer, I’ve answered this before. I would say that the toughest character to get right was Mat. His voice, he has the most distinctive voice in the entire Wheel of Time. Robert Jordan had perfected that voice, and if you read the series, Mat as a character evolves to the point that in book ten he’s just this majestic . . . piece of work. Piece of work used as, yeah. And he’s just amazing, and to go from like book ten and eleven, Robert Jordan at the height of his skill, telling of this character that’s very difficult to tell, and me then trying to do it, I think is also the most jarring. So he was tough, and I’d say the other tough one was Aviendha. Getting the Aiel right, because Robert Jordan had a lot of experience with the cultures he was basing the Aiel off of, and I don’t have much experience with them, I have experience with the Aiel only, if that makes any sense. And the first time I wrote Aviendha, Harriet sent me the chapter back and said “You’ve written an almost perfect Elayne”. And I’m like “Oh, great!” Well, I know I’ve got Elayne down then. I got her on the third try, and she said “Ahh, you’ve got it”. But it took me several tries to get Aviendha right.
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