Adger Williams
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
At what point did you decide/realize/suspish/inkle that Assassins of Thasalon would be a novel and not the shorter form usual for Pen and Des and what prompted that decision/realization/suspicion/inkling?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I did persuade myself to start it in the theory it was going to be a novella. When I approached the ~40k word limit for that form and my crew had not yet made it to Thasalon, I conceded. I toyed for a while with splitting it into a novella duology, but decided I'd prefer to keep the story together. As long as it didn't eat a year to write, which it didn't, thankfully. (I still think of it as a novella that got out of hand.) Well, part of the aim of the Pen & Des series was that it was not to be bound to any pre-set template, so, all good.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
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