One is that I said "All right, I'm going to confine all my side characters to these things called interludes, where I can just go crazy and do whatever I want, but they have to be like, isolated in their own containment unit called the interludes to prevent me from turning from the books just going in all directions at once." This is very natural for us as writers, particularly in a big epic fantasy, and I felt that when I approached The Stormlight Archive there are a couple of things I did. It's very easy for the books to start blending into one another, and it's also very easy to let side characters take over books. One was that the further an epic fantasy series goes, the more important it is that you have a structure to the series. So when I sat down to build The Stormlight Archive, there were a couple of things that I learned from The Wheel of Time. In the second series of Stormlight Archive, are they going to be about the same characters?
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