So, what will happen to the rest of the story? Will we just assume it happened more or less the same as Cosmos/MU, or will the BP story deliberately vear off so it doesn't matter?

-TLhikan

So, what will happen to the rest of the story? Will we just assume it happened more or less the same as Cosmos/MU, or will the BP story deliberately vear off so it doesn't matter?

 

-TLhikan

Probably neither -- I intend to try my best to make it clear what differences occur and what is kept the same. That'll be a major plot point in the Kuambu Saga. And I do intend to make the differences matter a lot, in some ways you guys hopefully haven't guessed yet.

(And BTW, I have said previously that after the series ends, which will now take place at the same point as the main-end of canon Bionicle plotwise, the Paracosmos would majorly deviate. Well, things just so happened to turn out just right in the canon that I might not even need to do that. But I still might if the Arena Method forces me to. )

Ah, the arena method.

Thanks for the info, Bones.

-TLhikan

This means that, for example, 2006 will be represented only in one epic? (I'm refering to main 2006 story; Mindifire is also 2006)

This means that, for example, 2006 will be represented only in one epic? (I'm refering to main 2006 story; Mindifire is also 2006)

Not for every year per se. In the case of 2006, probably, if only because Mindfire (and several others of the Bonus Series, if not all) already told much of my 2006-7 story. Also, I will probably conclude 2002's story in Endless Blue, mostly containing it all in one story (partly because I see Kal 2003 as simply an extension of 2002, and I did feature the Bohrok's Awakening in Twisted Island though they hadn't quite started their island-cleaning yet).

I will have at least two, maybe three in 2003, because of that one I've already written which doesn't have the main 2003 plot; as for the others I'm not yet sure.

The main reason I'd like to do at least two or three per year is that personally I feel mystery is best attained when I explore a mystery in one story, but do not answer it until the second or third related story, so that one story is about the thrill of the unknown, the other about the thrill of the revelation and its (ideally cool ) secret. That way the reader has time to feel left hanging and wonder after one story has had a climax that is emotional in a different way. Just a theory but yeah.

Edit: Also, keep in mind that though I had a large number of total epics (and stories) in 2001's story, many of them were fairly short. I do plan to continue to include the occasional short epic or even short story, so I can do roughly the same length for a year as if I had put it into all one interwoven epic.

I've done three epics in a row that are increasingly heavily interwoven with more and more threads, and I have come to believe that if it can be avoided, it should be. EB has probably double the number of threads of TI, which already had so many readers were getting lost -- I've started it that way before I got that feedback, so I'll finish it, but I would like to try to avoid it after that.

I'm also fine with going for it in EB because a big point of doing the BP is to experiment and practice different method so I can use the ideal in my real goal; my non-Bionicle fiction. There were also suggestions about ways to make the intercuts of the different threads flow better that I'm trying out in EB, so maybe more threads could work, plus I'm doing clearly defined sections of thread focuses. So for example in the first ten chapters & prologue, there's a major focus on a handful of side characters' threads, whose problems are largely resolved in chapter ten, and the focus moves on to others in the next thread, etc. yet the main two protagonists of Bhukasa and Lewa remain consistent throughout.

Anyways, sorry if I'm rambling or boring yall but when I get axed a keschun I ansur it.

I'm not disappointed at all. I can imagine you went through a similar thought process as I did when I decided to end This World as quickly as possible. Then again, it's different because I knew I couldn't go into university still having the burning need to conclude the series by writing it out in full - so I compromised and wrote summaries instead. Kind of unfortunate for me and my readers, but I think I made the right decision because it's given me room to start thinking about a new epic - a standalone that I think could really turn out well.

I'm still looking forward to your upcoming epics! And let me know when you've read the other This World books.

This is definitely a suprising move, but if it makes the series better overall, I fully support it. I do have one question though: regarding the "filler villians," will we still see them appear or at least referenced? Because honestly, with your skill in writing, I doubt they'd be anywhere near boring.

 

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Sorry for belated answer -- apparently I thought about answering this, thus thought I answered it.

But yes, I think I should be able to feature all of the filler villains.

I think I can do something similar to what I did with the Ghomboka in Twisted Island; I consider that the climax of the "Hidden Enemy" Saga, but the main enemies of that particular story are the Ghomboka rather than the Hidden Enemy. Also how the Rahi were used in many of the stories. So the "filler" villains will be lesser villains worked into the larger scheme of the Kuambu.

I'm not disappointed at all. I can imagine you went through a similar thought process as I did when I decided to end This World as quickly as possible. Then again, it's different because I knew I couldn't go into university still having the burning need to conclude the series by writing it out in full - so I compromised and wrote summaries instead. Kind of unfortunate for me and my readers, but I think I made the right decision because it's given me room to start thinking about a new epic - a standalone that I think could really turn out well.

 

I'm still looking forward to your upcoming epics! And let me know when you've read the other This World books.

Yeah for me I'm coming out of the end of college now, heh. But yeah, similar I'm sure. And I'll try to read those soon.