User blog:Brandon Rhea/The Chosen One: Chapters 3-5 release

Remember when I said I would have three new chapters of Star Wars: Episode I - The Chosen One out by the weekend? Well, I have to go back on that promise. Why? Because they’re all done and being released NOW, a few days ahead of schedule! I’ve worked really hard to get this done sooner, as I’m sick of procrastinating with this novel. I want to get it done ASAP so Edward Oliver can move onto the Trials of War series and so I can also work on my Chronicles of the Great War series. I’ve been working on TCO for over a year now, so I’d say it’s high time I finished!

The first two chapters are reminiscent of The Phantom Menace, although (unlike my previous draft) I tried to throw some interesting surprises and exciting events in there to make sure it wasn’t too much like the film. After all, it may be based on The Phantom Menace, but this is meant to be a re-imagining. I’m not looking to do a line-by-line copy of the film that changes only a few names and dates, which is unfortunately how some of these Utapau chapters came off in the previous draft.

So in Chapter 3, you’re going to learn a bit more about Jar Binks and you’ll be introduced to some of the Gungan people, many of whom are none too friendly. There’s also some action scenes in here that I hope will help to keep your attention. You’ll also find out what happens when you piss off Lord Maul. There were comments in the last draft that this Utapau segment was dragging out because of the similarities to The Phantom Menace, so hopefully I’ve rectified that a bit with this. Chapter 4 will end this current Utapau arc and will be relatively similar to the previous draft, although I did some new stuff with Jar Binks and Queen Arcadia to start an unlikely friendship between them during an attack by the Trade Federation Droid Army. Chapter 5, which is NOT based on any of the films, is pretty much the same as the last draft and introduces Mace Windy and Yoda to the novel. The Chapter 5 in the last draft went through a rewrite only a few months ago, so the quality is better than the older chapters anyway.

Sooooo without further adieu, here are the chapters:


 * The Chosen One, Chapter 3
 * The Chosen One, Chapter 4
 * http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/swfanon/images/e/e0/TheChosenOne-ChapterFive.pdf The Chosen One, Chapter 5]

The next chapter, Chapter 6, will begin the arc on Tatooine and I have some new stuff planned that’s different from the previous draft. I’m really looking forward to it, since I think it’ll be pretty exciting. I hope to start getting those chapters out soon, and I’ll probably release multiple chapters at a time again rather than one by one. As always, comments and feedback are greatly appreciated.

Until next time,

- Brandon