Warrior Cats HQ answers your questions
Sept 14, 2023 10:19:59 GMT -5
*Faith*, 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵, and 6 more like this
Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Sept 14, 2023 10:19:59 GMT -5
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Ivypool Super Edition vibes (please let this be true)!
Oh, and also:
Looks like they had the doomed BristleRoot romance planned out since the start of TBC (RIP again Bristlefrost)...
1. Readers are, as ever, super-keen to know what titles are in development, and what can be expected in the future.
Our tireless writers, Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary are most certainly keeping busy right now. Kate is working on the manuscript for the sixth book of A STARLESS CLAN, which will bring this arc to an exciting conclusion.
Meanwhile, Cherith is revising her manuscript for the 17th super edition. This is a book that the story team is very excited about, for a number of reasons: It’s always somewhat freeing* to step away from the arc-based stories to tell a longer standalone narrative, and the 17th super sets that stage for the 18th super edition, and that’s a story about which we’ve all been very excited ever since we came up with the idea (about a year ago!). We really wish we could say more about what the 17th super edition will be about, but readers hopefully won’t have too long to wait to find out!
[* Well… we say that doing the supers is freeing, but we’ve just remembered, the 17th super edition was actually quite tricky to plot, since it is taking place at the same time as the sixth book in A STARLESS CLAN!]
We’re also very excited to announce that the story team will be having our very first brainstorm for the ninth arc this week.
Our tireless writers, Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary are most certainly keeping busy right now. Kate is working on the manuscript for the sixth book of A STARLESS CLAN, which will bring this arc to an exciting conclusion.
Meanwhile, Cherith is revising her manuscript for the 17th super edition. This is a book that the story team is very excited about, for a number of reasons: It’s always somewhat freeing* to step away from the arc-based stories to tell a longer standalone narrative, and the 17th super sets that stage for the 18th super edition, and that’s a story about which we’ve all been very excited ever since we came up with the idea (about a year ago!). We really wish we could say more about what the 17th super edition will be about, but readers hopefully won’t have too long to wait to find out!
[* Well… we say that doing the supers is freeing, but we’ve just remembered, the 17th super edition was actually quite tricky to plot, since it is taking place at the same time as the sixth book in A STARLESS CLAN!]
We’re also very excited to announce that the story team will be having our very first brainstorm for the ninth arc this week.
Oh, and also:
3. How far in advance are the books plotted?
To give an example: Early on in our discussions for LOST STARS, the first book in THE BROKEN CODE arc, we came up with a set-piece where two characters get into trouble on the frozen lake. We knew this was going to be the beginning of a (then) possible romantic arc between those two characters. It was such a dramatic, key event with which to kick off a new cycle of stories, we knew that it could be very effective, dramatically, if the key event that brought the arc’s main story to a resolution also involved a possible drowning, because we knew there would be a horrible, gut-wrenching irony in the characters facing up to a terrible fate, in more dire circumstances, for a second time. From that point on — even though we did not know the first thing about what would fill books #2, #3, #4 and #5 at that stage — we had the end-point toward which we worked… for two-and-a-half kind of sad years, as we all dreaded getting to the point where we had to write this difficult scene. Generally, we try to make big decisions early on, so that we have a narrative destination in mind, as opposed to leaving ourselves scratching around for ideas later on. Although, the time between our first brainstorm and our last can stretch up to two and a half years, which means that not all Big Decisions hold — but more often than not, we discover that our early instincts were the right ones.
To give an example: Early on in our discussions for LOST STARS, the first book in THE BROKEN CODE arc, we came up with a set-piece where two characters get into trouble on the frozen lake. We knew this was going to be the beginning of a (then) possible romantic arc between those two characters. It was such a dramatic, key event with which to kick off a new cycle of stories, we knew that it could be very effective, dramatically, if the key event that brought the arc’s main story to a resolution also involved a possible drowning, because we knew there would be a horrible, gut-wrenching irony in the characters facing up to a terrible fate, in more dire circumstances, for a second time. From that point on — even though we did not know the first thing about what would fill books #2, #3, #4 and #5 at that stage — we had the end-point toward which we worked… for two-and-a-half kind of sad years, as we all dreaded getting to the point where we had to write this difficult scene. Generally, we try to make big decisions early on, so that we have a narrative destination in mind, as opposed to leaving ourselves scratching around for ideas later on. Although, the time between our first brainstorm and our last can stretch up to two and a half years, which means that not all Big Decisions hold — but more often than not, we discover that our early instincts were the right ones.