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6 Mar 17 - 19:45
There's a chance our biggest fear and our worst nightmare may come true. Lockwood & Co.'s characters have a chance of DYING in # 5!
Read the following interview:
RS: "How does a writer deal with that? I think about this when I watch cop shows on TV, even that you want to have your characters in the greatest peril, and you want the viewer, or the reader, to feel the terror along with that person, but you know the hero has to survive for the next episode. There was that one show Spooks [MI-5 in the U.S.], though, do you remember it? On BBC?"
JONATHAN STROUD: "Yeah."
RS:" Spooks knocked off main characters left and right. But you cant really do that in a book for kids. Or in a book for anybody, really."
JONATHAN STROUD : "No. In Bartimaeus I did do it, ultimately, and unexpectedly. I think there always has to be a sense that you could do it, that you are prepared to do it, and if you dont, the character is lucky, and the reader feels that luck. That gives you the sense that the peril is genuine, and the relief is genuine too. So Im constantly trying to think ahead, but at the same time, not paint myself into a corner. I need there to be varied options. That links back to the question about what happens to the characters. With the Lockwood books, I genuinely dont yet know whats going to happen to my characters at the end. That means there is a potential threat hanging over them like an ominous cloud. I treat it with respect and my reader with respect, but I do keep it open as I go."
Interview link: http://www.hbook.com/2015/09/talks-with ... ith-roger/#_
The final ending of the Bartimaeus series. Nathaniel's death:
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He can't do this to us, again!
Lucy, George, and Lockwood have to live !
Read the following interview:
RS: "How does a writer deal with that? I think about this when I watch cop shows on TV, even that you want to have your characters in the greatest peril, and you want the viewer, or the reader, to feel the terror along with that person, but you know the hero has to survive for the next episode. There was that one show Spooks [MI-5 in the U.S.], though, do you remember it? On BBC?"
JONATHAN STROUD: "Yeah."
RS:" Spooks knocked off main characters left and right. But you cant really do that in a book for kids. Or in a book for anybody, really."
JONATHAN STROUD : "No. In Bartimaeus I did do it, ultimately, and unexpectedly. I think there always has to be a sense that you could do it, that you are prepared to do it, and if you dont, the character is lucky, and the reader feels that luck. That gives you the sense that the peril is genuine, and the relief is genuine too. So Im constantly trying to think ahead, but at the same time, not paint myself into a corner. I need there to be varied options. That links back to the question about what happens to the characters. With the Lockwood books, I genuinely dont yet know whats going to happen to my characters at the end. That means there is a potential threat hanging over them like an ominous cloud. I treat it with respect and my reader with respect, but I do keep it open as I go."
Interview link: http://www.hbook.com/2015/09/talks-with ... ith-roger/#_
The final ending of the Bartimaeus series. Nathaniel's death:
He can't do this to us, again!
Lucy, George, and Lockwood have to live !