In a fantastic panel from Salt Lake City Comic Con, edited and transcribed by Club Jade, we hear from E.K. Johnston on her Ahsoka novel, out today.
Here is an extract:
Jawajames: In general, what makes a good Star Wars story? What are those key elements?
E.K. Johnston: One of the things that drew me into The Clone Wars and the prequel trilogy was the terrible sense of inevitability, where you know terrible things are going to happen to the characters you’ve come to like. Now, that extends to Rebels. But I like that sort of dramatic tension.
Jawajames: How do you go about adding depth to Ahsoka Tano, the protagonist who is already a well-defined character in Star Wars, while maintaining that she feels right to the audience?
E.K. Johnston: I asked a lot of questions and got a lot of good feedback as I was going through. When it got confusing at times, there were some very excited phone calls where we talked about the character of Ahsoka and where she was in the story that I was going to write. It was much more collaborative than I’m used to, which was a lot of fun, and it made it a kind of a shared story.
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