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Originally Posted by crich70
That's how Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" came to be. He wrote a bunch of short pieces and found that he'd in essence written a novel length manuscript in the end.
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That could indeed also happen of course, but the scenes I have in mind are so disconnected, that I'm not seeing a way to actually connect them up in the same story.
Terry Brooks started doing this with Shannara, 10 years ago, by the way. He started picking out characters (Allanon, The Weapons Master, Panamon Creel, Jair Ohmsford), and wrote short stories and a graphics novel.
The Quest of Allanon is a tiny prequel to The Sword of Shannara, for example, where The Black Irix is sort of an epilogue or "what happened after, to Panamon Creel" to the same book.
I think it would be nice to have characters in a novel that can refer to their own history, and then have that history written out already, at least partly.