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BrooksBlog: Killing Characters
Why do I keep killing off important characters in my books? Characters people like and root for. Even sometimes minor characters that are charming and likeable and interesting. I kill them off. I like saying when asked about this aberration in my character that I am unpredictable that way. Don’t get too attached to anyone…
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BrooksBlog: The Importance of Names
Woke up this morning struggling mightily with the outline for the second book in the new Legacy of Shannara series (which begins publishing in August 2012). I was fifteen chapters into this seemingly endless effort and realized that the name of one of the key characters was wrong. No particular reason it was wrong; it…
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BrooksBlog: The Reluctant Blogger
Really, that’s exactly what I am. I don’t like blogs. I don’t read other people’s blogs. Mostly, I don’t even want to know what other people are thinking because it just embarrasses me. But my publisher and my faithful web druid Shawn both say I should do a blog. Readers like them, they insist. Even…
