Questioner
Going back to Alcatraz, one of my favourite series--would be a great TV series.
Brandon Sanderson
I think so as well. [audience briefly cheers]
Questioner
I heard a story, and I don't know if this is true, that you were given a challenge and they gave you three random items, and you had to make it into a book. Is that how Alcatraz came to be?
Brandon Sanderson
So it's not quite, but it's close. Nobody gave me them, but I was enjoying watching Whose Line is it Anyway? at the time [audience cheers] and I thought, "Can I do this myself?" and I somewhere found--I went to my writing group, it was, and said, "Alright, throw things at me, to be the items that I need to use for this given book." I can't remember which one it was, it was like two or three. And they just threw things at me, and I wrote them down, and I used them all, just like a Whose Line sort of thing. That was one of the books. I think it was number two because the "I am a fish" thing came from that. Yeah. Good question, thank you.