Goodreads asked Hugo Negron:

How do you get inspired to write?

Hugo Negron Having a passion for the stories I write gives me a passion to continue the stories of their characters. I truly enjoy broadening my tales, expanding my own mythos, and since I have a vision of where the end stories may go, it excites me in getting myself and my readers there.

Sometimes, I have had a set idea for how a part of a tale would progress and suddenly a character I created will alter my original ideas and take the story into new places. For example, in book two of the series, Forging of a Knight, Rise of the Slavekeepers, I introduced a female knight named Jesepha. Originally, there were no female knights in this tale, and the knights that befriended Qualtan in his freshman adventures as a knight were pretty much stale and identical. I wanted to flesh them out a bit more, and so one "he" became a "she". As the story progressed, her presence modified some of the other knights around her, and the story changed from just following the main character Qualtan to following this wonderful band of knights and exploring them as individuals. It's inspiring to breathe life into these people, into their world, and to see them solidify on the pages before you. It's also amazing when you see a character basically invent him or herself and take you where you hadn't thought of or expected before.

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