A: Winters Heart was originally intended to be longer yes but every book was intended to be longer when I started. I have always been overly optimistic about how much of the story I can put into any one book. remember in the beginning I thought it was only going to be 4-5 books maybe 6 at the most. As for emperor who thinks I am not Robert Jordan, I don't remember meeting but i do remember someone from the Dragonmount site which I think is very good.

A: [WINTER'S HEART SPOILER] Shara will not be changed by the fact that male channelers wont go mad because they kill men who might possibly be able to channel at a very young age. Those guys are nothing but breeding stock kept utterly innocent and utterly ignorant until they are killed.

A: Lan is undergoing the severing effect of his bond to Moiraine which means that he has lost the desire and will to live which is being restored to him by Nyneave on top of which he loves her. If she dies he really really has no reason to stick around. As for Nynaeve, and Lan dying, women are always a lot tougher, emotionally, then man are. Nynaeve will cry for a very long time when Lan dies and she will go on living.

A: The acronym is RAFO - Read And Find Out.

A: [if you mean in TWOT series: my favorite book is always the one I'm writing right now and when I'm finished with that I go to another favorite book.

A: When I started writing TWOT I knew how it was going to begin and end plus the major things i wanted to happen in the middle. I had a rough outline of the whole story.

A: My favorite character in TWOT is always the character from who's POV im writing at the moment whether that is Rand or Nynaeve or Semirhage.

A: Read And Find Out, you horsethief!

A: When I am writing I almost always have music playing usually classical music, some jazz and some ethnic music, primarily japanese and african.

A: Mat's memories are NOT from his ancestors. He said I want to have the holes in his head filled but he did not specify exactly what he wanted them filled with and so he received scraps and bits and pieces of memories stolen from other men.

A: The lesser characters usually have real significance in driving the story forward. I am not talking about someone who appears for 4 pages and then vanishes but secondary and tertiary characters have real purposes.

A: You must start with the eye of the world. MUST. Start anywhere else and you will only get confused and discouraged.

A: [I knew from the age of 5 that i was going to write books one day and the inspiration were actually Jules Verne and Mark Twain.

A: Emma, my dear i will remember you in a year. I think I will remember Sander in a year. But you Emma, I think I will be dreaming about in a year. Please don't hyperventilate!

A: Yes I like the clay pipe. Thank you very much!

A: Read And Find Out!

A: I get my inspiration from almost fifty years of reading everything I can get my hands on and thinking of everything I read.

A: Yes, Mesaana and Semirhage will feature in future books. There are reasons they have been lying low.

A: [i can' t really say who the first character was that I came up with. I was thinking of a number of types of people and how they would work together, and they coalesced into certain characters.

A: [it was really only the details that have developed as i write the story. The major part of it was there in my head before I began writing TEOTW.