If not, are you ever planning to dedicate a full novel to their histories? (Or Meralonne's?)
At this moment in time, no -- although Evayne's very early backstory is a possibility, but that wouldn't take you to Evayne and Kallandras. I find backstory much harder to write, because there are absolute boundaries involved, and in general, while I know where I want the story to go, I like the room in which to veer sharply if that's what the characters dictate. I've written a bunch of novelettes/novellas set in the same universe, including one long one set after Hunter's Death, and there is some backstory in those.
I hadn't intended to write HOUSE WAR as backstory -- but the book started with Rath's viewpoint, and the braided structure I had intended to use didn't work well when one of the PoV characters was dead.
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Date: 2007-08-24 05:52 am (UTC)At this moment in time, no -- although Evayne's very early backstory is a possibility, but that wouldn't take you to Evayne and Kallandras. I find backstory much harder to write, because there are absolute boundaries involved, and in general, while I know where I want the story to go, I like the room in which to veer sharply if that's what the characters dictate. I've written a bunch of novelettes/novellas set in the same universe, including one long one set after Hunter's Death, and there is some backstory in those.
I hadn't intended to write HOUSE WAR as backstory -- but the book started with Rath's viewpoint, and the braided structure I had intended to use didn't work well when one of the PoV characters was dead.