Jessie
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Diana Gabaldon:
I am always impressed with the intricate details of each character and how you weave events together across several novels. What is it like keeping track of all these details after thousands of pages of storytelling?
Diana Gabaldon
It's just in my head. I think in shapes; each scene and character has a shape, and the shapes of the scenes fit (eventually) into a bigger shape that's a book--but the shapes of the books in turn make a bigger shape, which is the overall story. I don't know what the shape will look like, though, until I've been working on whatever it is for a while.
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Farsong Reads
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Diana Gabaldon:
I love the Lord John novels and novellas. It was interesting to me how you wrote his character while he was recovering from his battle injury--he was not himself, yet still clearly the same character. You did that so well. My question is, (spoiler) why did Percy betray him? It just seemed like such a stupid thing to do! Was he just stupid?
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