Once, Brandon created a magic system that allowed him to breathe out words instead of CO2, this was in order to finish books faster. The system had a flaw (a very rare thing to happen), for when he sneezed entire books came out. This is where most of his short works come from. However, one day he caught a cold, he managed to get rid of it in three days but the damage was already done. His house was filled with thousands of pages, he didn't know what to do with that much text so he divided it into ten parts, decided to release them every 3 years or so and called it The Stormlight Archive.
P.S. I know i'm really, really late on this but I just couldn't resist, this thread is too awesome to die in 7 pages (I just hope this is legal).