Interview with the living legend John Jennings for The Believer Mag. Ch-Ch-Check it out!
THE BELIEVER:
One of the few criticisms that have been leveled at Octavia Butler is that she doesn’t do a lot of character description. How did you go about the character design of these characters?
JOHN JENNINGS:
I didn’t find her descriptions to obscure at all. Butler gives us enough cues for us to do a solid rendition of the characters. But there were a lot of characters, and it was hard to keep them straight. Also, it’s hard to design a character and then put them through the wringer, or even kill them. You become close to them once you’ve drawn them so much.
To read the full interview, click this link: The Process: John Jennings, Parable of the Sower Page 123.
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