My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
Brandon SandersonThe sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal ... well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.
Brandon SandersonAre there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
Brandon SandersonYou know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?
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