Somewhere in the middle of Lords of Chaos, George RR Martin, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams and 10 other great writers (13 in total) captured the real Robert Jordan and had him stilled. This made him vomit. Also he started spending a great deal of time in Telawhateverthenameis where his dress kept changing to a low-cut affair that caused him to continually pull on his newly grown braid.