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| JohnJacksonMiller wrote: |
Thanks for the welcome, folks. I've been beyond busy lately and haven't made the rounds on the boards in ages, but I'm glad to add this as a stop.
| Life Is The Path wrote: |
| If you don't mind, I have a question. When confronting a series like KOTOR, and lately Knight Errant, how much, storywise, do you have planned? I'd imagine with Knight Errant, it's quite open to ongoing story lines, instead of a set time line. Or is there a set number of issues that you want the story told by? |
A good question. KOTOR by its nature had more of a linear structure to it -- Zayne had a goal, and he would either advance toward it or be thwarted. So while I elaborated quite a bit on it and interlaced it with two other character arcs -- Jarael's and Rohlan's -- I knew where the ports up ahead were as I was sailing.
Meanwhile, there is no way (we think) for Kerra to succeed at her ultimate goal, so it's structured much more like the branches of a tree, radiating outward. Now, I have a sense of what the overall tree looks like -- as readers saw by the end of the novel -- and I know some of the moments I want to depict along the way (her returning to Aquilaris is one). It is, as you say, open to a number of storylines -- just as shows like the old Have Gun, Will Travel were -- but unlike completely unconnected episodes, they all have a certain wider importance, in terms of how they shape the tree, and how the characters are changed by them. The pre-novel Kerra wouldn't react the same way to the events of "Deluge" as the post-novel Kerra. That's why we put it where it is. |
Now that is very intriguing. And thank you, too!
I get what you're saying about the KOTOR series (by the way, while I knew a little bit about Jarael, the Rohlan arc took me completely by surprise!), and it's interesting how you think she can't succeed at her ultimate goal. Because that makes me wonder at what her ultimate goal is. The destruction of the Sith, or the rescuing of innocents.
I do have one or two other questions, though. Do you prefer to have a set storyline, like KOTOR, or the Have Gun, Will Travel way of doing things with Knight Errant?
And another: How was the Lost Tribe of the Sith series set up? Meaning, who conceived it, how did you come to be involved? Because I guess it's a pretty big step, going from comic to prose. Or maybe it wasn't too big a step. I don't know! Was it, for you?
Once again, thank you!
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