I had taken apart a bunch of scenes so that I could rework them. Although truthfully right now, honestly, the book is probably at best a star and a half because I dismantled a big piece of it and it’s not put back together again. I do think the book is better now, but if you’d asked me that a couple of months ago maybe it was only three stars in my head. And to hear Rothfuss tell it, he’s needed to rework some big chunks of the story: Martin, who’s also known to rework scenes he doesn’t feel are working, which extends the time it takes to write a book. Rothfuss sounds a bit like A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. And because of that, it keeps me from kind of just doing like a three-act structure or a five-act structure. There’s ways that other authors think about story and it’s very easy for them. But a big part of it is, I think, structurally I don’t think about stories in a lot of traditional ways.

And part of it the fact that I focus on my language a lot more than a lot of writers.

Part of that is because I’m a perfectionist and part of is because back then I was doing it as a hobby. You know, there’s a reason it took me 14 years to get the first one published. I gotta put everything back, or try a third thing. “I’ll reword some stuff and then I put it down and I go have some lunch, I come back and I read it and the book is worse.” “Sometimes over the course of a day I will start working on the book, and I’m like ‘Okay this chapter isn’t working,’ and I’ll pull out a scene or I’ll move some things around,” Rothfuss explained.

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