94 scenes sounds more or less right, but I'm purely guessing.

Harriet has a large say in this stage of the process, and the way Brandon speaks, I'm guessing she'll have him combine scenes (and also likely re order some scenes). I remember now the number of chapters went down near the end for TGS to, and involved chopping scenes in two or combining two bits as one continuous scenes etc. That sort of editing was one of the last things RJ and Harriet worked on together before delivering a WOT manuscript. Harriet somewhat was more involved at this stage than usual, as she was the one looking for thematic links between scenes, and coming up with (most) chapter names.

It sounds quite possible the final number falls below 60 or even 55, which sounds a lot more reasonable for a WOT book of around 300k, considering we know it's a WOT that will also regroup a lot of "misc players" because Brandon pushed their reappearances to TOM to stick mostly to Rand/Egwene in TGS.


Hard to tell though, it depends how Brandon works. A lot of writers do 1 scene/1 chapter until they've done and then decide the final order of scenes and start regrouping them as chapters. A lot also don't work that way, rather determining beforehand that a chapter has a start point and the story needs to reach that end point when the chapter finishes. RJ worked the first way (and in complete disorder too - writing scenes that inspired him more then going back and forth in the book, not caring too much to assemble the final book, nor combine scenes into chapters until much later in the process).