Out of this Eos: “The Heir of Night” & Characters Under Pressure
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I have a guest post on my US publisher’s Out of this Eos blog today, on “The Heir of Night and Characters Under Pressure.” Here’s an intro:
Last week, I had a guest post on John Scalzi’s Whatever blog, talking about the “Big Idea” behind The Heir of Night, which centers around how good and evil are often portrayed in fantasy, particularly epic fantasy. Writing that post got me thinking about how, as an author, a big idea gets to “work its way out” through your story. In The Heir of Night (Heir) it’s definitely all about the characters, who they are, what code of values they subscribe to—and how they behave in relation to those values when the chips are down. So I guess that’s why Heir is quite an adventurous story (OK, it’s also because I like treks into dangerous territory, sword fights and hunts and battles with demons, to be strictly honest!) as well as being character driven: because it’s only when the going gets tough that the person you believe you are gets tested …
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