Brandon Sanderson om arbetet med The Wheel of Time &raquo Ampersand

See the hack writer.
Hack, hack, hack.
See him write a new book.
Type, type, type.
He writes one book a month.
He makes enough money to live
as long as he can write a book per month.
On his table is his medicine
to help him write faster.
It is called ”alcohol.”
Glug, glug, glug.
The hack writer has to take his medicine
twenty times a day!
So what is his new book about?
Same as the book he wrote before.
It’s about a boy who must save the world
by finding a lost magic sword
which is hidden inside a castle
which can only be reached through a magic portal
which has been split into six magic shards
which must be taken from six evil wizards
whose castles are guarded by dragons
who can only be slain with a magic wand
which is hidden in a cave
which is guarded by trolls… but you get the idea.
The hack writer has a problem with his ”trilogy.”
It was supposed to be three books.
But now it has grown to seven books in a series
and he can’t stop writing new ones.
What are the two words
that fantasy writers
and fantasy fans
hate the most?
”The” and ”End.”
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