Locke Lamora Read-Along Bonus #2: Other Roads Not Taken

[scott_lynch]

I meant to put this up yesterday, but I was out at a birthday party and crashed early once I got home. Without further ado, your weekly dose of hidden lore:

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After digging through my papers this week, I was surprised to find just how many scraps, notes, and lists had survived from the Early Days of The Lies of Locke Lamora. Far more than I

Comments

[wulfestieg]

I am incredibly sad that Capa Riga never made it into the final draft. I feel fully confident he would have turned out to be such an amazingly cool character that in the end you would not have murdered him, or if you had, he would have reappeared later with a glorious tale of derring-do that explained his fake death away.

[ext_1101979]

Thanks for sharing this! I really appreciate getting to hear a bit about your process, in particular how the Gentlemen Bastards and Capa Barsavi evolved. I think I'll re-read Lies now.

[soundingsea]

This is fascinating!

[ext_747748]

It's really interesting to see how your ideas evolved over time. I'm so glad that Father Chains ended up the way he did; I'm really enjoying his character thus far.

[ext_1117057]

It's so amazing to see your process and how the Frankenstein-esque bits and pieces of Camorr develop into formidable fantasy. It's almost like finding Da Vinci's teenage diary before his mirror writing phase or the maybe the sketches of Rome pre-Parthanon. Very, very cool.