I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO TELL YOU GUYS THIS FOR MONTHS.
Short version: there are going to be Divergent e-shorts!
Four of them!
And they will be about…drumroll, please…
Four!
(See what I did there?)
And the first one will be out on September 24th!
Long version: when my publisher approached me hoping that I would be able to write some extra Divergent content from them, I considered a few options for what I might write about, or whose perspective I might choose. Over time it became clear to me that the character I was most interested in exploring further was Four. Two reasons: first, I know his perspective is the one a lot of you are interested in reading (I get asked if I'm going to write anything else from his perspective all the time!), and hey, you're my readers and I like to write things you want to read; second, I was excited by the idea of expanding my own understanding of him, the way I did when I rewrote the knife-throwing scene from his perspective for the Free Four e-short.
For me, Four has never just been Tris’s love interest or a
way for sexual tension to enter the story. He has always been a whole person
with a history that affects him (and Tris) in significant ways, and a co-mover
of the plot along with Tris. These stories are helping me to delve into his character in a way I never
have before, and to build up parts of the world that Tris never experienced due
to her limited perspective. Interestingly enough, they also affected the
content of Allegiant, giving me more to draw from—awesome, right?
These stories will be longer than Free Four (Four’s retelling
of the knife-throwing scene, which was only thirteen pages), and the first one will be out on September 24th. You can learn more official info here, too. And of course, I'll keep you informed of the other stories as information becomes available, too.
