Serack, can you include this WOJ in the WOJ reference collection please. The transcription may need to be checked again for exact accuracy.
Hmm. Transcribing interesting quesetion about Murphy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJU5NwFiXk20:00
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Harry's Life getting Easier...Do you see Harry's life getting easier?
(THis is only a rough draft of transcribed part.)
Do you see there being a cost for Murphy standing by him. I probably already know the answer to that. What? Really do you? We will see what happens. I'm pretty sure I know what happens. But we'll see.
Sometimes things happen when I'm writing, and there is several points in the series when I'm writing that I built big descisions for the character and then I don't know what he is going to choose until he gets there because there is going to be lot of different factors that goes into a choice anybody makes. (Right) I wasn't sure what choice he was going to make up until that point. So there is a slightly different version of the Dresden Files. One of the big ones is in Dead Beat when he has to decide how he is going to have to take on the bad guys in the end. And he winds up grabbing the Word of Kemmler and reanimating the dinosaur and going to town. ... There were 3 things. He could have gone with the Word of Kemmler. He could have gone. No, I'm thinking too far back, it was in Changes that he made the really huge one. Changes was this giant gamble for me. There were many things happening that I didn't know; and I didn't know how it would fall out afterwards. So Changes, he is against the wall, his back is broke, his daughter is going to die, it is going to kill him too and other people around him and he has got to do something he hasn't done before, he has to change his boundaries. And, so he has 3 choices, he can pick up the Word of Kemmler and go full on Necromancer and go against the Vampires like that. He could summon Lasiel's coin to him still and he can still find that, he goes in as a denarian knight and takes them on, and his third choice is Mab. And to take her offer and her power and go because Mab keeps her word. He says he is going to set this up so I'll go in and at least save her, but I won't be able to save me, I'm already done. So that was his thinking. That was why he went with Mab at the time. Because he was in a place of such despair. His biggest concern is 'but what if she makes me into a monster and has me kill people.' So he figures out a contingency for that as well. He goes in and hopefully he can't lose. Either way, he won't end up a monster and will get his daughter out and to her mother and safely away. That was his plan. There were these huge choices and different versions of the Dresden Files for, Harry the Necromancer, Harry the Denarian. Once Nicodemus becomes your regular frenemy, you know that, that it would an interesting series but that would have gotten a lot darker. The necromancer thing would have, I don't even know about that, Harry... That would have meant he had to pretend I'm a regular wizard all the time, but the necromancy would have kept cropping up and getting more serious. But on the other hand, he could have been a white necromancer raising the spirits like he did in book 3. When you write these things, you're not really sure what is going to happen.
