Robert Jordan interview (March, 2003) - Fast Forward - Book 10 - Part I

[turnerjnasty]

I likes what he says..if you don't like it, write your own story!

[byrobyro]

Too bad he died before he could finish his life's work. In a different world, his story would have ended with him. In this world, which is all about money, it has to be finished by an inferior author (No slight against Brandon, but he aint no Robert Jordan). There is a lesson here, however: Keep the end in mind, and don't lose your way before it's too late.

[IGallagherA7X]

@byrobyro I think they hired someone else because the story was so amazing and so many people NEEDED to know how it ends, that they couldnt just leave it. James (Robert) wouldnt have wanted that. He even voice recorded how the book would end so that another author COULD finish it after he passed. I would have been very upset if they had just left us without telling us how it ends. The money had nothing to do with finishing the book, he stressed to his wife that it needed to be finished.

[JARHuygebaert]

you know, the man in black looks exactly the same two years ago in another video with Robert Jordan :P so rare

[OzGothtorech]

"Does it ever get old to have your book debut at number 1 on the new york times bestseller list?"

stupid question... jussayin

[flatronl1915SLG]

oh god I can see Matt's humor so well in him

[michaelkazich]

Tai shar Manetheren 

[PimpSauceMcB0SS]

i cant put the books down its the best book series i've ever read

[Lordi465]

chuck norris's brother

[Falsel1ght]

Read the first 6 book's in hard copy. Then i found I didn't have the time to read because I was doing a lot of travelling. Bought the audiobook's and they are fantastic

[JARHuygebaert]

He looks older here in 2003 then in 2005:S

[foamulator]

Not the easiest series to read, but worth it!

[dunnoPRis]

@foamulator yes worth it :)

[DizzDaShizz]

<3

I love you RJ.

If ever there was a person and a series to read and be read to me.

[tet64]

I can't really tell you how to have your world open up to you becuase...well I don't really know. Its different for every body. For some it comes at the snap of their fingers, for others its like playing with legos, they must let it build over time with much trial and error (I myself fall into the latter catogory). Robert Jorden himself said that the WOT built itself over a period of many years. Theres nothing absolute about writing, Go with what works for you. And you're welcome.

[tet64]

heres my advice. Firstly read and write a lot. Seriously, read everything you can get your hands on in all fields. Secondly, dont worry about clichés while youre writing the first draft, if you do, it will hold you back and youll never get anything thing done. Weeding out clichés is what revision is for. Thirdly, as some have already said, let your world open itself up to you. Think of writing as an undiscovered country and you are the explorer, jotting things down as you see them.

[histerics3]

avoid the Ayn Rand nonsense - Terry Goodkind based a lot of work on her philosophy which is basically this sort of modernist utopia, hyper-capitalism, selfishness is virtue sort of thing. I'm not trying to knock it, I enjoyed his books when I was a kid, but now I realize the underlying basis of his work, which I think overtook it. I always thought RJ was far superior.

[foamulator]

@histerics3

Ayn Rand philosophy is not based on selfishness. That is a lie lefisis always throw at it. .

[histerics3]

well, you can avoid being another Terry Goodkind by avoiding the preachy, intellectually and artistically naive Ayn Rand nonsense!

[nathenism]

jordan said he allowed the universe to tell the story through him...try to find a story the universe wants to tell through you...i dunno maybe that can be possible...i have a story to tell but its not fantasy and i dont want to tell it now and i'm not a writer, maybe i'll tell it in the future...

[Bobaganush26]

Robert Jordan is so intelligent. Just listening to him you can tell that he is intelligent.

[Activestupido]

Having something to tell to everyone. Then thinking how to tell it. That is the essence.

[byrobyro]

Just heard that book 12 is going to be published in three books in as many years! What a joke! What a big fukinh joke! Does this story have a problem with ending?

[frankymcfuckface]

Robert Jordan was the Dragon Reborn.

Truly amazing writer.

[drgnfrddd]

Robert Jordan was made of awesome, as are his books! RIP

[bamba1293]

This is one of my favorite series, it's sad that he died