It was sort of like taking apart an old car, throwing away half the bits, using what was left to build a new car, making a bunch of different parts to fill in all the gaps, and then putting a fresh coat of paint on the whole thing and hoping it’d work.Īmazingly, it did. The result was, at least to my eyes, a mess. And in the course of that I noticed all kinds of things that I thought could have been done better, which made me want to change THOSE things too. Since I was changing the setting of Fated, the knock-on effects meant I had to change a lot of the story, which meant changing many of the scenes, which meant changing the characters. The master post with links to all the parts is here.)Īt the end of the last part of this series, we were up to late 2009, and I’d taken on the task of rewriting Fated. (This is part 1 of a 12-part series of author commentaries on the Alex Verus books.
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